From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: [Announce] sg3_utils-1.22 available Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:01:49 -0400 Message-ID: <453641DD.1040602@torque.net> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45445 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161111AbWJRPAX (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:00:23 -0400 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, emschwar@debian.org, robbat2@gentoo.org sg3_utils is a package of command line utilities for sending SCSI (and some ATA) commands to devices. This package targets the linux kernel (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 the sg_sat_identify utility. This sends an ATA IDENTIFY (PACKET) DEVICE command through a SAT layer and can format its response suitable for hdparm ('--Istdin') to decode. See the CHANGELOG for more information. A tarball, rpm and deb can be found at (see table 2): http://www.torque.net/sg For an overview of sg3_utils see this page: http://www.torque.net/sg/sg3_utils.html The sg_dd utility has its own page at: http://www.torque.net/sg/sg_dd.html The SG_IO ioctl is discussed at: http://www.torque.net/sg/sg_io.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