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SCGCHECK(1)		    Schily´s USER COMMANDS		   SCGCHECK(1)

NAME
       scgcheck - check and validate the ABI of libscg

SYNOPSIS
       scgcheck [ options ]

DESCRIPTION
       Scgcheck	 is  used to check and verify the Application Binary Interface
       of libscg.

       The device refers to scsibus/target/lun of the drive. Communication  on
       SunOS  is  done with the SCSI general driver scg.  Other operating sys‐
       tems are using a library simulation of this  driver.   Possible	syntax
       is:  dev=  scsibus,target,lun  or dev= target,lun.  In the latter case,
       the drive has to be connected to the default SCSI bus of	 the  machine.
       Scsibus, target and lun are integer numbers.  Some operating systems or
       SCSI transport implementations may require to  specify  a  filename  in
       addition.   In  this  case  the	correct syntax for the device is: dev=
       devicename:scsibus,target,lun or dev=  devicename:target,lun.   If  the
       name of the device node that has been specified on such a system refers
       to exactly one SCSI device, a shorthand in the form  dev=  devicename:@
       or  dev=	 devicename:@,lun may be used instead of dev= devicename:scsi‐
       bus,target,lun.

       To access remote SCSI devices, you need to prepend the SCSI device name
       by  a  remote  device  indicator. The remote device indicator is either
       REMOTE:user@host: or  REMOTE:host:
       A valid remote SCSI device name	may  be:  REMOTE:user@host:  to	 allow
       remote  SCSI  bus scanning or REMOTE:user@host:1,0,0 to access the SCSI
       device at host connected to SCSI bus # 1,target 0 lun 0.

       To make readcd portable to all UNIX platforms, the syntax dev=  device‐
       name:scsibus,target,lun	is preferred as is hides OS specific knowledge
       about device names from the user.  A specific OS must  not  necessarily
       support	a  way to specify a real device file name nor a way to specify
       scsibus,target,lun.

       Scsibus 0 is the default SCSI bus on the machine. Watch the  boot  mes‐
       sages  for  more	 information  or  look into /var/adm/messages for more
       information about the SCSI configuration of your machine.  If you  have
       problems	 to  figure  out  what values for scsibus,target,lun should be
       used, try the -scanbus option of cdrecord.

OPTIONS
       -version
	      Print version information and exit.

       dev=target
	      Sets the SCSI target default for SCSI  Bus  scanning  test,  see
	      notes  above.   This allows e.g. to specify to use Solaris USCSI
	      or remote SCSI for the bus scanning case.

	      For the non bus scanning case, a typical device specification is
	      dev=6,0  .   If  a  filename  must be provided together with the
	      numerical target specification, the filename  is	implementation
	      specific.	 The correct filename in this case can be found in the
	      system specific manuals of the target operating  system.	 On  a
	      FreeBSD  system without CAM support, you need to use the control
	      device (e.g.  /dev/rcd0.ctl).  A correct device specification in
	      this case may be dev=/dev/rcd0.ctl:@ .

	      On Linux, drives connected to a parallel port adapter are mapped
	      to a virtual SCSI bus. Different adapters are mapped to  differ‐
	      ent targets on this virtual SCSI bus.

	      If no dev option is present, cdrecord will try to get the device
	      from the CDR_DEVICE environment.

	      If the argument to the dev= option does not contain the  charac‐
	      ters  ',',  '/',	'@' or ':', it is interpreted as an label name
	      that may be found in the file /etc/default/cdrecord  (see	 FILES
	      section).

       timeout=#
	      Set  the	default	 SCSI command timeout value to # seconds.  The
	      default SCSI command timeout is the  minimum  timeout  used  for
	      sending  SCSI  commands.	If a SCSI command fails due to a time‐
	      out, you may try to raise the default SCSI command timeout above
	      the  timeout  value  of the failed command.  If the command runs
	      correctly with a raised command timeout, please report the  bet‐
	      ter timeout value and the corresponding command to the author of
	      the program.  If no timeout option is present, a default timeout
	      of 40 seconds is used.

       debug=#, -d
	      Set  the	misc  debug value to # (with debug=#) or increment the
	      misc debug level by one (with -d).  If  you  specify  -dd,  this
	      equals to debug=2.  This may help to find problems while opening
	      a driver for libscg.  as well as with sector  sizes  and	sector
	      types.   Using -debug slows down the process and may be the rea‐
	      son for a buffer underrun.

       kdebug=#, kd=#
	      Tell the scg-driver to modify the kernel debug value while  SCSI
	      commands are running.

       -silent, -s
	      Do not print out a status report for failed SCSI commands.

       -v     Increment	 the  level of general verbosity by one.  This is used
	      e.g. to display the progress of the process.

       -V     Increment the verbose level with respect of SCSI command	trans‐
	      port  by	one.  This helps to debug problems during the process,
	      that occur in the	 CD-Recorder.	If  you	 get  incomprehensible
	      error  messages  you  should  use this flag to get more detailed
	      output.  -VV will show data buffer content in  addition.	 Using
	      -V or -VV slows down the process.

       f=file Specify the log file to be used instead of check.log.

EXAMPLES
FILES
SEE ALSO
       cdrecord(1), readcd(1), mkisofs(1), scg(7).

NOTES
       When  using  scgckeck  with  the broken Linux SCSI generic driver.  You
       should note that scgcheck uses a hack, that tries to emulate the	 func‐
       tionality of the scg driver.  Unfortunately, the sg driver on Linux has
       several severe bugs:

       ·      It cannot see if a SCSI command could not be sent at all.

       ·      It cannot get the SCSI status byte.  Scgcheck  for  that	reason
	      cannot report failing SCSI commands in some situations.

       ·      It  cannot get real DMA count of transfer.  Scgcheck cannot tell
	      you if there is an DMA residual count.

       ·      It cannot	 get  number  of  bytes	 valid	in  auto  sense	 data.
	      Scgcheck	cannot	tell  you if device transfers no sense data at
	      all.

       ·      It fetches to few data in auto request sense  (CCS/SCSI-2/SCSI-3
	      needs >= 18).

DIAGNOSTICS
       A typical error message for a SCSI command looks like:

	      readcd: I/O error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error
	      CDB:  00 20 00 00 00 00
	      status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
	      Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 25 00 00 00 00 00
	      Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
	      Sense Code: 0x25 Qual 0x00 (logical unit not supported) Fru 0x0
	      Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
	      cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s

       The  first  line	 gives information about the transport of the command.
       The text after the first colon gives the error text for the system call
       from  the  view	of  the	 kernel. It usually is: I/O error unless other
       problems happen. The next words contain a  short	 description  for  the
       SCSI  command  that fails. The rest of the line tells you if there were
       any problems for the transport of the command over the SCSI bus.	 fatal
       error  means that it was not possible to transport the command (i.e. no
       device present at the requested SCSI address).

       The second line prints the SCSI command descriptor block for the failed
       command.

       The  third  line	 gives information on the SCSI status code returned by
       the command, if the transport of the command succeeds.  This  is	 error
       information from the SCSI device.

       The fourth line is a hex dump of the auto request sense information for
       the command.

       The fifth line is the error text for the sense key if  available,  fol‐
       lowed  by  the  segment	number that is only valid if the command was a
       copy command. If the error message is not directly related to the  cur‐
       rent command, the text deferred error is appended.

       The sixth line is the error text for the sense code and the sense qual‐
       ifier if available.  If the type of the device is known, the sense data
       is  decoded  from  tables  in scsierrs.c .  The text is followed by the
       error value for a field replaceable unit.

       The seventh line prints the block number that is related to the	failed
       command	and  text for several error flags. The block number may not be
       valid.

       The eight line reports the timeout set up for this command and the time
       that the command realy needed to complete.

BUGS
CREDITS
MAILING LISTS
AUTHOR
       Joerg Schilling
       Seestr. 110
       D-13353 Berlin
       Germany

       Additional information can be found on:
       http://www.fokus.fhg.de/usr/schilling/cdrecord.html

       If you have support questions, send them to:

       cdrecord-support@berlios.de
       or other-cdwrite@lists.debian.org

       If you have definitely found a bug, send a mail to:

       cdrecord-developers@berlios.de
       or schilling@fokus.fhg.de

       To subscribe, use:

       http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/cdrecord-developers
       or http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/cdrecord-support

Joerg Schilling			  Version 2.0			   SCGCHECK(1)
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