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scsi_ready(8)

scsi_ready8

Do scsi test unit ready on devices

Usage

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

Overview

This bash 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.

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01 to Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 8 (Jessie)
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

Authors

Written by D. Gilbert

From sg3_utils 1.49-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.