sg3_utils-1.08 released

sg3_utils-1.08 released

[Douglas Gilbert]

Tarball, rpm and deb 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-1.08 [20040831]
   - sg_inq: fix noisy message when EVPD and raw modes set
       - for VPD page 0, list supported page names if known
       - add '-d' option to list version descriptors
   - sg_opcodes: numerically sort list of opcodes unless '-u' given
       - add '-a' to sort alphabetically list of opcode names
       - add '-t' to report supported task management functions
   - sg_persist: add 'register and move" PROUT service action
       - add transportId support, document in sg_persist.8 and example
   - sg_modes: handle subpage code for known pages (e.g. control
       extension)
       - clean up sense buffer handling (allow for descriptor format)
       - SPC-3 draft revision 20a updates
   - sg_write_long: new utility to exercise WRITE LONG command
   - sg_read_long: new utility to exercise READ LONG command
   - sg_err.c: fix compile errors when SG_KERNEL_INCLUDES defined in
       lk 2.6
       - sg_includes.h typedef of u64 for BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl in lk 2.4
       - add safe_strerror(), sg_scsi_normalize_sense(),
         sg_normalize_sense()
         and sg_scsi_sense_desc_find() functions
       - add more sense data descriptor format decoding
       - move multiple implementations of dStrHex() into sg_err.c
   - sg_logs: exit if SCSI INQUIRY fails (e.g. when applied to ATA disk)
   - sginfo: bug fixes and SPC-3 revision 20a updates
       - add '-E' option to access Control Extension mode (sub)page
   - sg_start: change '-d' switch to '-v' (verbose) switch for
       consistency
       - document extra power condition states in man page
   - sg_readcap: output rto_en and prot_en bits from long read
       capacity data
   - add COVERAGE file to list SCSI command coverage

Doug Gilbert