From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932220Ab0KLOBW (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:01:22 -0500 Received: from smtp.infotech.no ([82.134.31.41]:56545 "EHLO smtp.infotech.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932094Ab0KLOBV (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:01:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4CDD48A3.7030506@interlog.com> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:01:07 -0500 From: Douglas Gilbert Reply-To: dgilbert@interlog.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SCSI development list CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dan_Hor=E1k?= , Ritesh Raj Sarraf , "Robin H. Johnson" , Martin Pitt , linux-kernel Subject: [Announce] sg3_utils-1.30 available Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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. It also has ports to FreeBSD, Tru64, Solaris, and Windows (cygwin and mingw). This version tracks various changes made by www.t10.org since April 2010. Note that "thin provisioning" has been renamed to "logical block provisioning". There is a copy of ChangeLog below. For an overview of sg3_utils and downloads see this page: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html The sg_dd utility has its own page at: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_dd.html The SG_IO ioctl is discussed at: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_io.html A full changelog can be found at: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3_utils.ChangeLog A release announcement will be sent to freshmeat.net . Changelog for sg3_utils-1.30 [20101111] [svn: r363] - sg_referrals: new utility for REPORT REFERRALS - sbc3r25 renames 'thin' provisioning' to 'logical block provisioning': changes in sg_format, sg_inq, sg_logs, sg_modes, sg_readcap, sg_vpd - sg_inq: update version descriptor list to spc4r27 - extended inquiry vpd page add extended self test completion minutes field - sg_lib: sync asc/ascq list to spc4r27 - dStrHex(): trim excess trailing spaces - sg_read_long: add --readonly option (open() is rw) - sg_raw: add --readonly option (open() is rw) - allow bidirectional commands - sg_vpd: rdac vendor page [0xc8] parse corrections - extended inquiry vpd page add extended self test completion minutes field - sg_ses: expand --date (in) buffer to 2048 bytes - sg_opcodes: add extended parameter data for TMFs (spc4r26) - sg_dd: clean count calculation, document nocache flag - treat bsg devices as implicit sg_io - sg_write_same: if READ CAPACITY(16) fails try 10 byte variant - anticipate approval of proposal to allow UNMAP and ANCHOR bits to be set on WRITE SAME(10) with '--10' option - sg3_utils man page: sections added for OS device names Changelog for sg3_utils-1.29 [20100406] [svn: r334] ... Doug Gilbert