Synaptic finds it: Most OSes have SCSI pass-through interfaces that enable user space programs to send SCSI commands to a device and fetch the response. With SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) many ATA disks now can process SCSI commands. Typically each utility in this package implements one SCSI command. See the draft standards at www.t10.org for SCSI command definitions plus SAT. ATA commands are defined in the draft standards at www.t13.org . For a mapping between supported SCSI and ATA commands and utility names in this package see the COVERAGE file.
udev rules which are associated with the utilities in the sg3-utils package. (Not that I understand any of this.) On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 6:55 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:22:36 -0800 > Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> dijo: > > >Is it possible that sg3-utils and/or sg3-utils-udev is what you need? > >They seem to relate to the same stuff the posted comments mentioned. > > Apt-get can't find the package sg3-utils-udev. > > As for sg3-utils, I installed it some time back, and apparently they did > nothing. However, while there is no man page, I found a web site > with some commands for it, most of which I did not understand a word of. > However, I did try one: sg_get_config, adding /dev/sg0 (one of my > optical drives), and it dumped about everything about the drive. How > could it do that if the sg module was not loaded? Yet lsmod does not > find it. I am so confused! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
