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Diffstat (limited to 'sg_start.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sg_start.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH SG_START "8" "April 2006" "sg3_utils-1.20" SG3_UTILS +.TH SG_START "8" "June 2006" "sg3_utils-1.21" SG3_UTILS .SH NAME sg_start \- starts (spins-up) or stops (spins down) device, load or eject medium @@ -101,9 +101,6 @@ are equivalent. The single "-" form is for backward compatibility. To avoid confusion, only one of "0", "1", "--load", "--eject", "--start" and "--stop" can be given. .PP -If this utility succeeds then its process exits with a status of 0; -otherwise it exits with a non-zero status. -.PP There is an associated "power condition" mode page (0x1a) in which timer values can be set for transitioning to either idle or standby state after a period of inactivity. The sdparm utility can be used to view the @@ -129,6 +126,9 @@ Earlier versions had a '-s' option to perform a SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command before the START STOP UNIT command was issued. According to recent SBC-2 drafts this is done implicitly if required. Hence the "-s" option has been dropped. +.SH EXIT STATUS +The exit status of sg_start is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise see +the sg3_utils(8) man page. .SH AUTHOR Written by K. Garloff and D. Gilbert .SH "REPORTING BUGS" |