| .TH SCSI_READY "8" "May 2013" "sg3_utils\-1.36" SG3_UTILS |
| .SH NAME |
| scsi_ready \- do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B scsi_ready |
| [\fI\-\-brief\fR] [\fI\-\-help\fR] [\fI\-\-verbose\fR] |
| \fIDEVICE\fR [\fIDEVICE\fR]* |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .\" Add any additional description here |
| .PP |
| This bash shell script calls the sg_turs utility on each given |
| \fIDEVICE\fR. This will send a SCSI TEST UNIT READY command to each |
| \fIDEVICE\fR. Disks, tape drives and DVD/BD players amongst others |
| may respond to this SCSI command. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-brief\fR |
| for each \fIDEVICE\fR given output a line containing either ' ready' |
| or ' device not ready'. If \fIDEVICE\fR is not found or there is |
| another serious error then an error message will appear instead. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR |
| print out the usage message then exit. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR |
| increase level or verbosity. |
| .SH EXIT STATUS |
| The exit status of this script is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise the |
| exit status is that of the last sg_turs utility called. See |
| the sg3_utils(8) man page. |
| .SH AUTHORS |
| Written by D. Gilbert |
| .SH COPYRIGHT |
| Copyright \(co 2009\-2013 Douglas Gilbert |
| .br |
| This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO |
| warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .B sg_turs (sg3_utils) |
