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| author | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2009-02-10 16:27:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2009-02-10 16:27:43 +0000 |
| commit | 5da81155e2db153d9c3a3c7385463b6b1fe2bc04 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b9aed5cc1053df99f69bf9a7111b809c35eba2f /doc/sg_format.8 | |
| parent | 0d97f0269c1efe8347a5f394772ea3f39ed5aa18 (diff) | |
| download | sg3_utils-5da81155e2db153d9c3a3c7385463b6b1fe2bc04.tar.gz | |
minor doco
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diff --git a/doc/sg_format.8 b/doc/sg_format.8 index 5c2ac97a..da0077ae 100644 --- a/doc/sg_format.8 +++ b/doc/sg_format.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH SG_FORMAT "8" "October 2007" "sg3_utils\-1.25" SG3_UTILS +.TH SG_FORMAT "8" "February 2009" "sg3_utils\-1.27" SG3_UTILS .SH NAME sg_format \- format or resize a SCSI disk (perhaps change its block size) .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -173,7 +173,10 @@ and \fI\-\-pinfo\fR are given. sets the "Security Initialization" (SI) bit in the FORMAT command's initialization pattern descriptor within the parameter list. According to SBC\-3 the default initialization pattern "shall be written using a -security erasure write technique". +security erasure write technique". The SI bit is found in SBC (1998) +and SBC\-2 (2005) so vendors should support it. SATA and parallel ATA +disks have a separate command called SECURITY ERASE UNIT to perform this +action. Recent version of the hdparm utility can execute that ATA command. .TP \fB\-6\fR, \fB\-\-six\fR Use 6 byte variants of MODE SENSE and MODE SELECT. The default action @@ -354,10 +357,11 @@ Written by Grant Grundler, James Bottomley and Douglas Gilbert. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>. .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 2005\-2007 Grant Grundler, James Bottomley and Douglas Gilbert +Copyright \(co 2005\-2009 Grant Grundler, James Bottomley and Douglas Gilbert .br This software is distributed under the GPL version 2. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. .SH "SEE ALSO" .B sg_turs(8), sg_requests(8), sg_inq(8), sg_modes(8), sg_vpd(8) .B sg_reassign(8) [all in sg3_utils], sdparm(8), scsiformat (old) +.B hdparm(8) |