Lines Matching full:utilities

3 sg3_utils \- a package of utilities for sending SCSI commands
14 sg3_utils is a package of utilities that send SCSI commands to the given
18 The names of all utilities start with "sg" and most start with "sg_" often
21 command. A mapping between SCSI commands and the sg3_utils utilities that
58 utilities (written since July 2004) use the getopt_long() function to parse
67 The older utilities, including as sg_inq, sg_logs, sg_modes, sg_opcode,
74 Over time the command line interface of these older utilities became messy
76 interface of these older utilities was altered to have both a cleaner
78 By default these older utilities use their getopt_long() based interface.
80 more recent command line utilities tend to use it. That can be overridden
83 utilities documents the details.
85 Several sg3_utils utilities are based on the Unix dd command (e.g. sg_dd)
93 for older utilities.
96 only used by the embedded SNTL within the library used by the utilities in
104 Several utilities have their own environment variable setting (e.g.
141 Prior to the Linux kernel 2.6 series these utilities could only use
143 kernel 2.6 series, any device name can be used by these utilities.
170 utilities in this package.
180 These utilities assume a given device name is in the Win32 device namespace.
187 a form that is suitable for other utilities in this package to use.
263 and sg_senddiag utilities can be used on a NVMe device that supports a newer
270 controller/namespace. Starting in version 1.43 these utilities contain a
281 Apart from the special case with the sg_inq, all other utilities in the
294 To aid scripts that call these utilities, the exit status is set to indicate
308 success. Also used for some utilities that wish to return a boolean value
559 Some options are used uniformly in most of the utilities in this
564 utilities that can cause lots of user data to be lost or overwritten
569 option has become a common feature of many command line utilities (e.g.
576 some utilities (e.g. sg_ses and sg_vpd) store a lot of information in
583 output the usage message then exit. In a few older utilities the '\-h'
594 produce hexadecimal that can be parsed by other utilities use this option
599 data\-in buffer) which several of these utilities decode (e.g. sg_vpd and
630 The default output of most utilities that decode information returned from
633 utilities that decode a significant amount of SCSI data support this option.
643 utilities take into account. The maximum response length is typically
645 this option, several utilities use a default allocation length (sometimes
655 used instead. Some utilities use 4 (bytes), rather than 16, as the cutoff
664 Some utilities that consume data to send to the \fIDEVICE\fR along with the
671 utilities that issue potentially long\-running SCSI commands often have a
680 many utilities had relatively long internal command timeouts before this
687 its progress indication field (see the sg_requests and sg_turs utilities).
688 Utilities that send such SCSI command either have an \fI\-\-immed\fR option
701 Many utilities have command line options that take numeric arguments. These
782 to various sg3_utils utilities, the sg_decode_sense utility can also be
793 invoke compiled utilities (e.g. sg_readcap). Several of the scripts start
796 compiled utilities only allow one device as an argument. Some distributions
804 than the main utilities (found in the 'src' subdirectory). This is due
808 Some utilities that the author has found useful have been placed in
828 The Linux SCSI generic (sg) driver is often used under the utilities in
865 Written by Douglas Gilbert. Some utilities have been contributed, see the
872 Some utilities are distributed under a GPL version 2 license while others,
874 that are common to almost all utilities and thus contain the most reusable