From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: [Announce] sg3_utils-1.13 available Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:27:17 +1000 Message-ID: <42368045.8020605@torque.net> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from borg.st.net.au ([65.23.158.22]:64736 "EHLO borg.st.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262279AbVCOG0L (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:26:11 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org sg3_utils is a package of command line utilities for sending SCSI commands to devices. This package targets the lk 2.6 and lk 2.4 series. In the lk 2.6 series these utilities (except sgp_dd) can be used with any devices that support the SG_IO ioctl. This version adds sg_format which can format SCSI disks, potentially with a different number of bytes in each block. It can also resize (sometimes called "short stroke") a disk. There are also extensions to the sg_dd utility to use the READ LONG SCSI command on damaged blocks (for a "last resort" media copy). A tarball, rpm and deb can be found on: http://www.torque.net/sg . For an overview of sg3_utils see this page: http://www.torque.net/sg/u_index.html The sg_dd utility has its own page at: http://www.torque.net/sg/sg_dd.html A changelog can be found at: http://www.torque.net/sg/p/sg3_utils.CHANGELOG A release announcement has been sent to freshmeat.net . Doug Gilbert