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author | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2014-02-18 05:40:02 +0000 |
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committer | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2014-02-18 05:40:02 +0000 |
commit | 64583176e57abbf45609d7432375771fbc769131 (patch) | |
tree | 448a4c52f89e77bc66a000ca583ed64e206dc4d8 /doc/sg_vpd.8 | |
parent | 9adb91bca282072323320f64e737d42c53c5b4e7 (diff) | |
download | sg3_utils-64583176e57abbf45609d7432375771fbc769131.tar.gz |
sg_inq: allow --page=-1 to force std INQUIRY decoding
git-svn-id: https://svn.bingwo.ca/repos/sg3_utils/trunk@555 6180dd3e-e324-4e3e-922d-17de1ae2f315
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diff --git a/doc/sg_vpd.8 b/doc/sg_vpd.8 index 47b01c4c..bed417e8 100644 --- a/doc/sg_vpd.8 +++ b/doc/sg_vpd.8 @@ -63,10 +63,12 @@ the latter case this option has the same effect as '\-\-quiet \-\-page=di_lu'. \fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-inhex\fR=\fIFN\fR \fIFN\fR is expected to be a file name (or '\-' for stdin) which contains ASCII hexadecimal respresenting a VPD page (or a standard INQUIRY) response. -This utility will then decode that response. The hexadecimal should be -arranged as 1 or 2 digits representing a byte each of which is whitespace -or comma separated. Anything from and including a hash mark to the end -of line is ignored. +This utility will then decode that response. It is preferable to also +supply the \fI\-\-page=PG\fR option, if not this utulity will attempt +to guess which VPD page (or standard INQUIRY) the response is associated +with. The hexadecimal should be arranged as 1 or 2 digits representing a +byte each of which is whitespace or comma separated. Anything from and +including a hash mark to the end of line is ignored. .TP \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-long\fR when decoding some VPD pages, give a little more output. For example the ATA |