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The author of sg3_utils would like to thank the following people who
have made contributions:
Andries Brouwer <aebr at win dot tue dot nl> rewrite of isosize (original
written by Joerg Schilling). isosize is now found in the util-linux
package and in the archive directory of this package.
Brian Bunker <Brian dot Bunker at netapp dot com> contributed
sg_read_block_limits and the target reset addition to sg_reset
[20090615]
Christophe Varoqui <christophe dot varoqui at free dot fr> original sg_rtpg
[20041229]
Clayton Weaver <cgweav at email dot com> contributed safe_strerror().
Dan Horak <dhorak at redhat dot com> website support for this package and
others. Lot of fixes, recently man pages [20140128]
Dave Johnson <ddj at ccv dot brown dot edu> improved disk defect list
handling [20051218]
Dave Williams <dave at opensourcesolutions dot co dot uk> help with
sgp_dd especially and "> 0x7fffffff" with sg*_dd [20060303]
Eric Schwartz <emschwar at debian dot org> who wrote these man pages:
sg_readcap, sg_reset, sg_scan, sg_start, sg_test_rwbuf,
sg_turs and sginfo
Eric Seppanen <eric @ purestorage dot com> borrowed ideas from alternate
implementation of sg_compare_and_write [20130823]
Eric Youngdale <eric at andante dot org> author of scsi_info on which sginfo
is based.
Frank Jansen <fjansen at egenera dot com>: additions to sg_scan; contributed
code for '--alloc-length=' option in sg_persist [20090402]
Grant Grundler <grundler at parisc-linux dot org> co-author of blk512-linux
that has become sg_format [20050201]
Greg Inozemtsev <greg at purestorage dot com>
extensions to sg_xcopy [20130207+20130816]
Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse dot de>
contributed sg_rdac, (and some corresponding VPD entries to
sg_vpd_vendor), sg_stpg and sg_safte [20071013+20130110]
sg_referrals [20100906]
sg_inq --export option [20120220+20130109]
sg_xcopy+sg_copy_results [20120322]
rescan-scsi-bus.sh patches to Kurt Garloff's v1.57 [20130715]
55-scsi-sg3_id.rules + 58-scsi-sg3_symlink.rules [20140527]
sg_sat_read_gplog [20141107]
Hayashi Naoyuki <titan at culzean dot org>
port to Tru64 [20060127]
Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko at colossus dot escape dot de> sg based example
programs for the original sg driver
Ilan Steinberg <ilan dot steinberg at kaminario dot com>
sg_xcopy: contributed --on_src and --on_dst options [20130505]
Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de>
contributed sg_raw [20070331]
James Bottomley <jejb at parisc-linux dot org> co-author of blk512-linux
that has become sg_format [20050201]
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai dot de>
autotools clean-up [20150216]
Joe Krahn <krahn at niehs dot nih dot gov> help with int64_t cleanup
[20071219]
Kai Makisara <Kai dot Makisara at kolumbus dot fi> help with tape
minor numbers in lk 2.6 plus earlier advice [20081008]
Kurt Garloff <garloff at suse dot de> original sg_start and sg_test_rwbuf.
Additions to sginfo and sg_map. Author of rescan-scsi-bus.sh with
latest update to v1.57 [20130331]
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse dot de> contributed Unit Path Report VPD
page decoding in sg_inq (vendor specific: EMC) and sg_emc_trespass
utility
Luben Tuikov <ltuikov at yahoo dot com>
help with documentation and other suggestions [20061014]
contribution sg_read_buffer and sg_write_buffer [20061103]
Marius Konitzer <marius dot konitzer at ruhr-uni-bochum dot de
log pages on IBM LTO Ultrium drives [20100225]
Mark Knibbs <markk at clara dot co dot uk>
suggested and tested oflag=sparse for sg_dd
Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin dot net> added the raw switch "-r" to sg_inq
Nate Dailey < Nate dot Dailey at stratus dot com > extended sg_map for sparse
disk node names (e.g. /dev/sdaaa) [20050511]
Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre at ieee dot org> pointed out danger of negative bpt
values in sg_dd (and friends); also problems when reading /dev/null
Peter Allworth <linsol at zeta dot org dot au> original dd clone design used
by sg3_utils's dd variants (e.g. sg_dd).
Roland Dreier <roland at purestorage dot com>
extension and correction to sg_xcopy [20120205]
Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail dot com> has written libiscsi and a
set of external patches to add direct iSCSI support to this package.
See README.iscsi [20110518]
Saeed Bishara contributed sg_write_long
Sean Stewart <Sean dot Stewart at netapp dot com> various improvements
to rescan-scsi-bush.sh script [20130827]
Shahar Salzman <shahar dot salzman at kaminario dot com> contributed
sg_compare_and_write [20121205]
Thomas Kolbe <tkolbe at partnersdata dot com>
Solaris port help and testing [20070503]
Tim Hunt <tim at timhunt dot net> increased number of (sd and sg) devices
that sginfo could detect.
Tom Steudten <steudten at gmx dot ch> sginfo addition: add '-Fhead' option
to sort defect list by head.
Trent Piepho <xyzzy at speakeasy dot org> print out some "sense key specific"
data and "-6" switch for sg_modes
Douglas Gilbert
17th February 2015