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diff --git a/doc/sg_copy_results.8 b/doc/sg_copy_results.8 index cc58a473..c8914176 100644 --- a/doc/sg_copy_results.8 +++ b/doc/sg_copy_results.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH SG_COPY_RESULTS "8" "December 2012" "sg3_utils\-1.35" SG3_UTILS +.TH SG_COPY_RESULTS "8" "June 2012" "sg3_utils\-1.37" SG3_UTILS .SH NAME sg_copy_results \- send SCSI RECEIVE COPY RESULTS command (XCOPY related) .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -9,11 +9,19 @@ sg_copy_results \- send SCSI RECEIVE COPY RESULTS command (XCOPY related) .SH DESCRIPTION .\" Add any additional description here .PP -This utility is designed to query the status of the SCSI Extended Copy -facility (see SPC\-3 revision 23 sections 6.3 and 6.17), present in -some modern storage arrays. This utility sends a SCSI RECEIVE COPY +This utility is designed to query the status of the SCSI Extended +Copy (XCOPY) facility (see SPC\-3 revision 23 sections 6.3 and 6.17), present +in some modern storage arrays. This utility sends a SCSI RECEIVE COPY RESULTS command to the given \fIDEVICE\fR and displays the response. .PP +During the draft stages of SPC\-4 the T10 committee has expanded the XCOPY +command so that it now has two variants: "LID1" (for a List Identifier +length of 1 byte) and "LID4" (for a List Identifier length of 4 bytes). +This utility supports the older, LID1 variant which is also found in SPC\-3 +and earlier. While the LID1 variant in SPC\-4 is command level (binary) +compatible with XCOPY as defined in SPC\-3, some of the command naming has +changed. This utility uses the older, SPC\-3 XCOPY names. +.PP The command has four distinct modes of operation, distinguished by the service action field: .TP @@ -102,7 +110,7 @@ Written by Douglas Gilbert. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>. .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 2012 Hannes Reinecke and Douglas Gilbert +Copyright \(co 2012\-2013 Hannes Reinecke and Douglas Gilbert .br This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |