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-.TH SG_RAW "8" "December 2018" "sg3_utils\-1.45" SG3_UTILS
+.TH SG_RAW "8" "January 2019" "sg3_utils\-1.45" SG3_UTILS
.SH NAME
sg_raw \- send arbitrary SCSI command to a device
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -193,7 +193,9 @@ bsg device. Note that data is being read from "urandom.bin" and sent
to the device (data\-out) while resulting data (data\-in) is placed
in the "out.bin" file. Also note the length of both is 512 bytes
which corresponds to the transfer length of 1 (block) in the cdb (i.e.
-the second last byte).
+the second last byte). urandom.bin can be produced like this:
+.br
+dd if=/dev/urandom bs=512 count=1 of=urandom.bin
.TP
sg_raw.exe PhysicalDrive1 a1 0c 0e 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00
This example is from Windows and shows a ATA STANDBY IMMEDIATE command
@@ -208,9 +210,9 @@ the sg3_utils(8) man page.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Ingo van Lil
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
-Report bugs to <inguin at gmx dot de>.
+Report bugs to <inguin at gmx dot de> or to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2001\-2018 Ingo van Lil
+Copyright \(co 2001\-2019 Ingo van Lil
.br
This software is distributed under the GPL version 2. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.