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NAME

       scsi_ready - do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices

SYNOPSIS

       scsi_ready [--brief] [--help] [--verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]*

DESCRIPTION

       This  bourne  shell  script  calls  the  sg_turs  utility on each given
       DEVICE. This will send a SCSI TEST UNIT READY command to  each  DEVICE.
       Disks,  tape  drives  and  DVD/BD players amongst others may respond to
       this SCSI command.

OPTIONS

       Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.

       -b, --brief
              for  each  DEVICE  given  output  a  line  containing  either  ’
              ready’  or  ’     device  not  ready’. If DEVICE is not found or
              there is another serious error then an error message will appear
              instead.

       -h, --help
              print out the usage message then exit.

       -v, --verbose
              increase level or verbosity.

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.

AUTHORS

       Written by D. Gilbert

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2009 Douglas Gilbert
       This  software  is  distributed  under  a  FreeBSD license. There is NO
       warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS  FOR  A  PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       sg_turs (sg3_utils)