SCSI_READY(8)                      SG3_UTILS                     SCSI_READY(8)

NAME
       scsi_ready - do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices

SYNOPSIS
       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.

EXIT STATUS
       The exit status of this script is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise
       the exit status is that of the last sg_turs utility called. See the
       sg3_utils(8) man page.

AUTHORS
       Written by D. Gilbert

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Douglas Gilbert
       This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO
       warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       sg_turs (sg3_utils)

sg3_utils-1.36                     May 2013                      SCSI_READY(8)