SCSI_SATL(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so the tool is scsi_satl and its whole job is to check SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) device support 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

scsi_satl [--help] [--log] [--quiet] [--verbose] DEVICE

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this is a bash shell script 🐚 that fires off a bunch of SCSI commands at the DEVICE you give it. it assumes that device is an ATA device hiding behind a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer (SATL), and it's giving investigation energy 🕵️‍♀️ The results of each test show up, plus a pass/fail count at the end. literally so useful 😭

💜 OPTIONS 💜

Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well. bestie, this one's important, don't skip it 🫶

• -h, --help — prints the usage message and then exits. the vibe check tool 🙈
• -L, --log — the output to stderr (from each SCSI command that runs) gets appended to a file called 'scsi_satl.err' in the current working directory. your receipts, saved 🧾✨
• -q, --quiet — the output gets trimmed way down, and usually you only see the pass/fail count. minimal, clean, very quiet-luxury 🤫
• -v, --verbose — increases the level of verbosity. more tea, more output 🍵

🌸 EXIT STATUS 🌸

okay this part is lowkey the best bit 👑 The exit status of this script is the number of "bad" errors found. So an exit status of 0 means all mandatory SCSI commands worked as expected. zero errors = absolutely iconic 🔥

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Written by D. Gilbert, the legend himself 🫡

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2011-2013 Douglas Gilbert

this software is distributed under a BSD-2-Clause license. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. no cap, read the fine print 📜💀

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

sg_inq, sg_luns, sg_turs, sg_requests, sg_vpd, sg_senddiag, sg_modes, sg_sat_identify (sg3_utils) 💖

bestie, that's the whole page 🎀 this one's SCSI_SATL(8) from sg3_utils-1.36, dated May 2013 ✨ go check your SATL devices and slay 💅🦋