Name
scsi_ready - do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devicesSynopsis
scsi_ready [--brief] [--help] [--verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]*Description
This bash shell script calls the sg_turs utility on each given DEVICE. This will send a SCSI TEST UNIT READY command to each DEVICE. Disks, tape drives and DVD/BD players amongst others may respond to this SCSI command.
Options
Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.-b, --brief for each DEVICE given output a line containing either ' ready' or ' device not ready'. If DEVICE is not found or there is another serious error then an error message will appear instead.
-h, --help print out the usage message then exit.
-v, --verbose increase level or verbosity.