Ubuntu Manpage: sg_sat_identify - send ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command via SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer

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NAME

       sg_sat_identify - send ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command via SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer

SYNOPSIS

       sg_sat_identify   [--ck_cond]   [--extend]   [--help]   [--hex]  [--indent]  [--len=16|12]
       [--packet] [--raw] [--verbose] [--version] DEVICE

DESCRIPTION

       This utility sends either an ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command or an ATA IDENTIFY PACKET  DEVICE
       command to DEVICE and outputs the response. The devices that respond to these commands are
       ATA disks and ATAPI devices respectively.  Rather than send these commands directly to the
       device  they  are  sent  via  a  SCSI  transport which is assumed to contain a SCSI to ATA
       Translation (SAT) Layer (SATL). The SATL may be in an operating system driver, in host bus
       adapter firmware or in some external enclosure.

       The  SAT  standard  (SAT  ANSI  INCITS  431-2007, prior draft: sat-r09.pdf at www.t10.org)
       defines two SCSI "ATA PASS-THROUGH" commands: one using a 16 byte "cdb" and the other with
       a  12  byte  cdb.  This utility defaults to using the 16 byte cdb variant. SAT-2 is also a
       standard: SAT-2 ANSI INCITS 465-2010 and the draft prior to  that  is  sat2r09.pdf  .  The
       SAT/-3 project has started and the most recent draft is sat3r01.pdf .

OPTIONS

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

-c, --ck_cond
sets the CK_COND bit in the ATA PASS-THROUGH SCSI cdb. The default setting is clear
(i.e. 0). When set the SATL should yield a sense buffer containing a ATA Result
descriptor irrespective of whether the command succeeded or failed. When clear the
SATL should only yield a sense buffer containing a ATA Result descriptor if the
command failed.

-e, --extend
sets the EXTEND bit in the ATA PASS-THROUGH SCSI cdb. The default setting is clear
(i.e. 0). When set a 48 bit LBA command is sent to the device. This option has no
effect when --len=12.

-h, --help
outputs the usage message summarizing command line options then exits. Ignores
DEVICE if given.

-H, --hex
outputs the ATA IDENTIFY (PACKET) DEVICE response in hex. The default action (i.e.
without any '-H' options) is to output the response in hex, grouped in 16 bit words
(i.e. the ATA standard's preference). When given once, the response is output in
ASCII hex bytes (i.e. the SCSI standard's preference). When given twice (i.e.
'-HH') the output is in hex, grouped in 16 bit words, the same as the default but
without a header. When given thrice (i.e. '-HHH') the output is in hex, grouped in
16 bit words, in a format that is acceptable for 'hdparm --Istdin' to process.

-i, --indent
outputs the World Wide Name (WWN) of the device. This should be a NAA-5 64 bit
number. It is output in hex prefixed with "0x". If not available then
"0x0000000000000000" is output. The equivalent for a SCSI disk (i.e. its logical
unit name) can be found with "sg_vpd -ii".

-l, --len=16 | 12
this is the length of the SCSI cdb used for the ATA PASS-THROUGH commands. The
argument can either be 16 or 12. The default is 16. The larger cdb size is needed
for 48 bit LBA addressing of ATA devices. On the other hand some SCSI transports
cannot convey SCSI commands longer than 12 bytes.

-p, --packet
send an ATA IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE command (via the SATL). The default action is to
send an ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command.

-r, --raw
output the ATA IDENTIFY (PACKET) DEVICE response in binary. The output should be
piped to a file or another utility when this option is used. The binary is sent to
stdout, and errors are sent to stderr.

-v, --verbose
increases the level or verbosity.

-V, --version
print out version string

NOTES

       Since  the  response  to  the  IDENTIFY  (PACKET) DEVICE command is very important for the
       correct use of an ATA(PI) device (and is typically the first command sent), a SATL  should
       provide an ATA Information VPD page which contains the similar information.

       The  SCSI ATA PASS-THROUGH (12) command's opcode is 0xa1 and it clashes with the MMC set's
       BLANK command used by cd/dvd writers. So a SATL in front of an ATAPI device that uses  MMC
       (i.e.  has  peripheral device type 5) probably should treat opcode 0xa1 as a BLANK command
       and send it through to the cd/dvd drive. The ATA PASS-THROUGH (16) command's opcode (0x85)
       does not clash with anything so it is a better choice.

       In  the  2.4 series of Linux kernels the DEVICE must be a SCSI generic (sg) device. In the
       2.6 series block devices (e.g. disks and ATAPI DVDs) can also be  specified.  For  example
       "sg_inq  /dev/sda"  will  work  in the 2.6 series kernels. From lk 2.6.6 other SCSI "char"
       device names may be used as well (e.g. "/dev/st0m"). Prior to lk 2.6.29 USB  mass  storage
       limited  sense  data to 18 bytes which made the --ck_cond option yield strange (truncated)
       results.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status of  sg_sat_identify  is  0  when  it  is  successful.  Otherwise  see  the
       sg3_utils(8) man page.

AUTHOR

       Written by Douglas Gilbert

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2006-2012 Douglas Gilbert
       This  software  is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.