From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754237Ab3FIQ13 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jun 2013 12:27:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.infotech.no ([82.134.31.41]:32986 "EHLO smtp.infotech.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751811Ab3FIQ1Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jun 2013 12:27:24 -0400 Message-ID: <51B4ACAB.20605@interlog.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:26:19 -0400 From: Douglas Gilbert Reply-To: dgilbert@interlog.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SCSI development list CC: Tomas Fasth , Martin Pitt , kumba@gentoo.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dan_Hor=E1k?= , linux-kernel , delphij@delphij.net Subject: [ANNOUNCE] sdparm 1.08 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 sdparm is a command line utility designed to get and set SCSI device parameters (cf hdparm for ATA disks). The parameters are held in mode pages. Apart from SCSI devices (e.g. disks, tapes and enclosures) sdparm can be used on any device that uses a SCSI command set. Almost all CD/DVD/BD drives use the SCSI MMC set irrespective of the transport. sdparm also can decode VPD pages including the device identification page. Commands to start and stop the media; load and unload removable media and some other housekeeping functions are supported. sdparm supports both the Linux kernel 2.4, 2.6 and 3 series with ports to FreeBSD, Solaris, Tru64 and Windows. The version tracks changes in draft standards from www.t10.org since January 2012. For more information and downloads see: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdparm.html ChangeLog for sdparm-1.08 [20130606] [svn: r215] - device id VPD: add protocol specific port identifier - control extension mpage: add max sense data length - power condition mpage: FIDCPC->CCF_IDLE, FSBCPC->CCF_STAND, FSTCPC->CCF_STOPP (spc4r34+) - caching mpage: add SYNC_PROG field (sbc3r33) - block device characteristics VPD page additions sbc3r34 - extended inquiry vpd page: add max supported sense data length - protocol-specific port information VPD page for SAS SSP, persistent connection (spl3r2), power disable (spl3r3) - allow --readonly with --set= and --clear= - add placeholder for third party copy VPD page - supply more information if a UA occurs - add Makefile so scripts/sas_disk_blink installed - scripts/scsi_ch_swp: new, uses sdparm and blockdev - ./configure options: - change --enable-no-linux-bsg to --disable-linuxbsg - add --disable-scsistrings to reduce utility size with non-libsgutils build - point svn:externals to rev 498 of sg3_utils - report sdat_ovfl bit (if set) in sense data - sg_pt_linux: expand DID_ (host_byte) codes - cope with a transport error plus sense data - prefer major() over MAJOR() macro - win32: fixes for cygwin version 1.7.17 headers ChangeLog for sdparm-1.07 [20120121] [svn: r188] ... Doug Gilbert