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)