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author | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2018-02-04 21:44:28 +0000 |
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committer | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2018-02-04 21:44:28 +0000 |
commit | 9fe92189ee2e0769daaefccf68d3fabff62b4f6b (patch) | |
tree | fc953c05ae1c6481008e3ab29b083cb4d74f14bb /doc/sg_inq.8 | |
parent | a89cc910e28cbdebc01e2414bc47bcc9a163c7df (diff) | |
download | sg3_utils-9fe92189ee2e0769daaefccf68d3fabff62b4f6b.tar.gz |
add sg_convert_errno() and sg_if_can2stderr(); work on NVMe support for Win32; add REPORT SUPPORTED OPCODES+TMFs to SNTL
git-svn-id: https://svn.bingwo.ca/repos/sg3_utils/trunk@749 6180dd3e-e324-4e3e-922d-17de1ae2f315
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diff --git a/doc/sg_inq.8 b/doc/sg_inq.8 index 2f1d4f90..9a22dbb0 100644 --- a/doc/sg_inq.8 +++ b/doc/sg_inq.8 @@ -164,17 +164,19 @@ This is the (maximum) length of the response to be sent by the device. The default value of \fILEN\fR is 0 which is interpreted as: first request is for 36 bytes and if necessary execute another INQUIRY if the "additional length" field in the response indicates that more than 36 bytes is available. +.br If \fILEN\fR is greater than 0 then only one INQUIRY command is performed. -See paragraph below about "36 byte INQUIRYs". +This means that the Serial Number (obtained from the Serial Number VPD +pgae (0x80)) is not fetched and therefore not printed. +See the NOTES section below about "36 byte INQUIRYs". .TP \fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-long\fR this option causes more information to be decoded from the Identify command sent to a NVMe \fIDEVICE\fR. .TP \fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-maxlen\fR=\fILEN\fR -this option has the same action as the \fI\-\-len=LEN\fR option. It has -been added for compatibility with the sg_vpd, sg_modes and sg_logs -utilities. +this option has the same action as the \fI\-\-len=LEN\fR option above. It has +been added for compatibility with the sg_vpd, sg_modes and sg_logs utilities. .TP \fB\-O\fR, \fB\-\-old\fR Switch to older style options. Please use as first option. @@ -233,14 +235,13 @@ VPD page number to query. If the \fI\-\-page=PG\fR is not given then \fIPG\fR defaults to zero which is the "Supported VPD pages" VPD page. A more up to date decoding of VPD pages can be found in the sg_vpd(8) utility. .SH NOTES -Some devices with weak SCSI command set implementations lock up when -they receive commands they don't understand (or even response lengths -that they don't expect). Such devices need to be treated carefully, -use the '\-\-len=36' option. Without this option this utility will issue -an initial standard INQUIRY requesting 36 bytes of response data. If -the device indicates it could have supplied more data then a second -INQUIRY is issued to fetch the longer response. That second command may -lock up faulty devices. +Some devices with weak SCSI command set implementations lock up when they +receive commands they don't understand (or even response lengths that they +don't expect). Such devices need to be treated carefully, use the '\-\-len=36' +option. Without this option this utility will issue an initial standard +INQUIRY requesting 36 bytes of response data. If the device indicates it +could have supplied more data then a second INQUIRY is issued to fetch the +longer response. That second command may lock up faulty devices. .PP ATA or ATAPI devices that use a SCSI to ATA Translation layer (see SAT at www.t10.org) may support the ATA Information VPD page. This @@ -502,7 +503,7 @@ Written by Douglas Gilbert .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>. .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 2001\-2017 Douglas Gilbert +Copyright \(co 2001\-2018 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. |