From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: sg3_utils-1.05 released Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:21:09 +1000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FB37735.7070204@torque.net> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au ([130.102.2.1]:24331 "EHLO bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264145AbTKMMVc (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:21:32 -0500 Received: from torque.net (d-240-159.stlucia.uq.net.au [203.101.240.159]) by bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hADCLNb6023284 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:21:25 +1000 (GMT+1000) List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Tarball and rpms can be found on http://www.torque.net/sg . Summary of sg3_utils, sg_utils and other packages are on this page: http://www.torque.net/sg/u_index.html A release announcement will be sent to freshmeat.net shortly. Changelog for sg3_utils-1.05 [20031112] - sginfo: major rework; add IE page, clean up control, cache + disconnect pages (as per SPC-3 and SBC-2). - when storing, update saved page (change from previous version) - use 10 byte mode sense and select by default (override with '-6') - mode subpage support - sg_dd, sgm_dd + sgp_dd: - 64 bit capable (read capacity; count, skip and seek values). - numerical arguments accept hex (prefixed by '0x' or '0X') - require bpt > 0 - fix problem when reading /dev/null - sg_dd: Treat SIGUSR1 properly: print stats and continue; - sgp_dd: reduce READ CAPACITY response size to 8 bytes - sg_read: require bpt > 0 - sg_test_rwbuf: switch from sg_header to sg_io_hdr interface N.B. After these changes no sg3_utils utilities (in the main directory) use the sg_header interface - sg_scan: switch from sg_header to sg_io_hdr interface - sg_senddiag: increase extended foreground timeout to 60 minutes - sg_inq: add names of peripheral device types - sg_readcap: show total size in bytes, MB, GB - sg_logs: read log pages twice (first time to get response length), for fragile HBAs; decode Seagate 0x37 + 0x3e pages; display pcbs - sg_modes: fix core dump when corrupted response, don't print extra pages - sg_map: increase sg device scanning from 128 to 256 - change man page references from lk 2.5 to lk 2.6 - examples/sg_iovec_tst: added testing sg_iovec (sg_io_hdr iovec's) - utils/hxascdmp: add utility for displaying ASCII hex Doug Gilbert