scsi_mandat(8)

scsi_mandat8

Check scsi device support for mandatory commands

Usage

scsi_mandat [--help] [--log] [--quiet] [--verbose] DEVICE

Overview

This bash shell script calls several SCSI commands on the given DEVICE. These SCSI commands are considered mandatory (although that varies a little depending on which standard/draft the DEVICE complies with). The results of each test and a pass/fail count are output.

Options

Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.

-h, --help

print out the usage message then exit.

-L, --log

the output to stderr (from each SCSI command executed) is appended to a file called 'scsi_mandat.err' in the current working directory.

-q, --quiet

the amount of output is reduced and typically only the pass/fail count is output.

-v, --verbose

increase level or verbosity.

Exit status

The exit status of this script is the number of "bad" errors found. So an exit status of 0 means all mandatory SCSI commands worked as expected.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8–12
  3. 13–Arch

Authors

Written by D. Gilbert

From sg3_utils 1.49-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.