| .TH SG_SCAN "8" "April 2003" "sg3_utils-1.03" SG3_UTILS |
| .SH NAME |
| sg_scan \- does a SCSI bus scan and prints the results to standard output |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B sg_scan |
| [\fI-a\fR] |
| [\fI-n\fR] |
| [\fI-w\fR] |
| [\fI-i\fR] |
| [\fI-x\fR] |
| <\fIgeneric device\fR> |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .\" Add any additional description here |
| .PP |
| sg_reset exercises the SCSI device/bus/host reset capability. It is |
| supported by the sg driver in lk 2.2.16 and beyond but associated |
| SCSI middle level driver changes have not been accepted into the |
| standard kernel at this time. Many distributions contain the patch to |
| the mid-level that activates this feature. |
| .TP |
| -a |
| do alpha scan (ie sga, sgb, sgc) |
| .TP |
| -n |
| do numeric scan (ie sg0, sg1...) [default] |
| .TP |
| -w |
| force open with read/write flag |
| .TP |
| -i |
| do SCSI INQUIRY, output results |
| .TP |
| -x |
| extra information output about queuing |
| .SH AUTHORS |
| Written by D. Gilbert and F. Jansen |
| .SH COPYRIGHT |
| Copyright \(co 1999-2002 Douglas Gilbert |
| .br |
| This software is distributed under the GPL version 2. There is NO |
| warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
