SCSI_START(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so scsi_start is the tool that gets one or more SCSI disks 🧚 started up (spun up!) 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

scsi_start [--help] [--verbose] [--wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]*

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bestie, this one is a bash shell script 🐚 and it literally just calls the sg_start utility on every DEVICE you hand it 🫶

its whole purpose in life? to spin up (start) each of those DEVICEs ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

ngl the long options need their arguments with an = too, same as the short ones 🙈

• -h, --help — shows you the usage message and then bounces 👋
• -v, --verbose — cranks up the verbosity level, so you get more chatter 🔊
• -w, --wait — waits for the spin up (start) on each DEVICE to finish before moving on 🫠 by default, every start runs in immediate mode, so the wait is totally opt-in 💜

💀 NOTES 💀

⚠️ warning bestie! if you spin up a whole pile of disks at once (aka skip --wait), the power supply might get overloaded 😭⚡

🌸 EXIT STATUS 🌸

if everything goes well, the script exits with 0 🎉 otherwise, it passes along the exit status of the last sg_start utility that got called ✨ for more on that, check out the sg3_utils(8) man page 📖

👑 AUTHORS 👑

written by D. Gilbert 💖

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2009-2013 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 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• sg_start (sg3_utils) 🫶

bye bestie! this page came from SG3_UTILS version 1.36, dated May 2013 💅🎀