emergeing now

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:53:36 +1200
Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> Nick Rout wrote:
> > hmmm i never heard of those tools, and they are not on my system. what
> > package are sg_scan and sginfo in?
> 
> 
> Package: sg3-utils
> Priority: optional
> Section: admin
> Installed-Size: 988
> Maintainer: Eric Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 1.05-2
> Replaces: sg-utils
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
> Conflicts: sg-utils, cdwrite
> Filename: pool/main/s/sg3-utils/sg3-utils_1.05-2_i386.deb
> Size: 380242
> MD5sum: 193713f89b46138dd39dbfe3b7fc7dbb
> Description: Utilities for working with generic SCSI devices
> This package includes a number of utilities to manipulate the linux "sg"
> (version 3) device driver.
> .
> This driver is only found in 2.4.x linux kernels; if you are using
> 2.2 (or earlier), please install the sg-utils package instead.
> .
> The package includes:
>      * sg_dd - a variant of 'dd' that works with the sg interface
>      * sgm_dd - like sg_dd, but uses mmap()'d IO
>      * sgp_dd - like sg_dd, only multithreaded
>      * sg_scan - displays the SCSI bus on stdout
>      * sg_map - shows the mapping between SCSI devices and sg devices
>      * scsi_devfs_scan - scans devfs systems to identify SCSI devices
>      * sg_inq - a utility for poking around with the SCSI INQUIRY command
>      * sginfo - a re-porting of the 'scsiinfo' program to use sg devices
>      * sg_readcap - prints the output of a READ CAPACITY command
>      * sg_start - spins up (or down) disks
>      * sg_modes - prints out mode sense pages
>      * sg_logs - prints out log sense pages
>      * sg_senddiag - runs SCSI self tests
>      * sg_reset - exercises SCSI device/bus/host reset capability
>      * sg_rbuf - tests SCSI bus speed
>      * sg_test_rwbuf - tests the SCSI host adapter
>      * sg_read - reads multiple blocks, useful for timing
>      * sg_runt_ex - an example program to test the sg driver version
>      * sg_turs - execute a TEST UNIT READY command on the given device
>      * sg_debug - prints debug info for all open sg file descriptors
> .
> It also includes sg_simple1, sg_simple2 and sg_simple3 which
> demonstrate calls to the SCSI INQUIRY and TEST UNIT READY commands.
> The first two only differ in their error processing: sg_simple1 uses
> sg_err.[hc] for error processing while sg_simple2 does its own more
> primitive checks.
> .
> "sg_simple3" tests out user space scatter gather added to the
>   version 3 sg driver.
> 
> 
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