scsi_ready - do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices
scsi_ready [--brief] [--help] [--verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]*
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.
Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.
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.
print out the usage message then exit.
increase level or verbosity.
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.
Written by D. Gilbert
Copyright © 2009-2013 Douglas Gilbert
This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
sg_turs (sg3_utils)