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SCUZZ(8)                    System Manager's Manual                   SCUZZ(8)



NAME
       scuzz - SCSI target control

SYNOPSIS
       scuzz [ -6eq ] [ -m max-xfer ] [ [ -r ] sddev ]

DESCRIPTION
       Scuzz  is  an interactive program for exercising raw SCSI devices.  Its
       intended purpose is to investigate and manipulate odd  devices  without
       the  effort  of  writing  a special driver, such as shuffling the media
       around on an optical jukebox.  It reads commands  from  standard  input
       and  applies  them to a SCSI target (other devices accessed through the
       sd(3) interface, such as ATA(PI) devices, may also work).  If sddev  is
       given  on  the command line, an open (see below) is immediately applied
       to the target.  On successful completion of a command, ok n is printed,
       where  n  is the number of bytes transferred to/from the target; the -q
       command line option suppresses the ok message.

       The -6 forces the use of 6-byte SCSI commands rather than 10-byte ones.
       Some  older  devices require this, though scuzz attempts to adapt auto‐
       matically.  The -e makes scuzz more willing to  retry  I/O  errors  but
       less  tolerant  of  other  errors and implies -6.  This option is often
       needed to read Exabyte 8mm tapes.  The -m option sets the  maximum  I/O
       transfer  size  to  max-xfer.   Exabyte drives often require this to be
       1024 or the exact tape block size and some 4mm drives require  this  to
       be the exact tape block size or larger.

   Commands
       help command
              Help is rudimentary and prints a one line synopsis for the named
              command, or for all commands if no argument is given.

       probe  Probe attempts an inquiry command on all SCSI units, and  prints
              the result preceded by the name of those targets which respond.

       The help and probe commands may be given at any time.

       open [-r]sddev
              Open  must be given before any of the remaining commands will be
              accepted.  Internally, unless the -r option is given,  open  is‐
              sues  ready  then  inquiry,  followed by a device class-specific
              command to determine the logical block size of the target.   Sd‐
              dev is an sd(3) device directory like /dev/sdC0.

       close  Close  need  only  be given if another target is to be opened in
              the current session.

       The remaining commands are  in  rough  groups,  intended  for  specific
       classes  of  device.   With the exception of the read, write, and space
       commands, all arguments are in the style of ANSI-C integer constants.

       ready  Test Unit Ready checks if the unit is powered up and ready to do
              read and write commands.

       rezero Rezero  Unit  requests  that a disk be brought to a known state,
              usually by seeking to track zero.

       rewind Rewind positions a tape at the beginning  of  current  partition
              (there is usually only one partition, the beginning of tape).

       reqsense
              Request  Sense retrieves Sense Data concerning an error or other
              condition and is usually issued following the  completion  of  a
              command  that  had  check-condition status.  Scuzz automatically
              issues a reqsense in response to a  check-condition  status  and
              prints the result.

       format Format Unit performs a ``low level'' format of a disk.

       rblimits
              Read  Block  Limits  reports  the possible block lengths for the
              logical unit. Tapes only.

       read file nbytes
              Read transfers data from the target  to  the  host.   A  missing
              nbytes causes the entire device to be read.

       write file nbytes
              Write  transfers  data  from  the host to the target.  A missing
              nbytes causes the entire input file to be transferred.

              The first argument to the read and write  commands  specifies  a
              source  (write) or destination (read) for the I/O.  The argument
              is either a plain file name or | followed by a command to be ex‐
              ecuted  by  rc(1).   The  argument may be quoted in the style of
              rc(1).

       seek offset whence
              Seek requests the target to seek to a position on a disk,  argu‐
              ments being in the style of seek(2); whence is 0 by default.

              Scuzz  maintains  an internal notion of where the current target
              is positioned.  The  seek,  read,  write,  rewind,  rezero,  and
              wtrack commands all manipulate the internal offset.

       filemark howmany
              Write  Filemarks  writes  one  (default)  or more filemarks on a
              tape.

       space [-b] [-f] [[--]howmany]
              Space positions a tape forwards  or  backwards.   The  arguments
              specify  logical block (-b) or filemark (-f) spacing; default is
              -b.  If howmany is negative it specifies spacing backwards,  and
              should be preceded by -- to turn off any further option process‐
              ing.  Default is 1.

       inquiry
              Inquiry is issued to determine the device type of  a  particular
              target, and to determine some basic information about the imple‐
              mented options and the product name.

       modeselectbytes...

       modeselect6bytes...
              Mode Select is issued to set variable parameters in the  target.
              Bytes  given  as arguments comprise all the data for the target;
              see an appropriate manual for the format.  The  default  is  the
              10-byte form of the command; modeselect6 is the 6-byte version.

       modesense [page[nbytes]]

       modesense6 [page[nbytes]]
              Mode  Sense  reports variable and fixed parameters from the tar‐
              get.  If no page is given, all pages are returned.  Nbytes spec‐
              ifies  how  many  bytes  should be returned.  The default is the
              10-byte form of the command; modesense6 is the 6-byte version.

       start [code]

       stop [code]

       eject [code]

       ingest [code]
              Start, stop, eject, and ingest are synonyms for Start/Stop  Unit
              with different default values of code.  Start/Stop Unit is typi‐
              cally used to spin up and spin down a rotating disk drive.  Code
              is  0 to stop, 1 to start and 3 to eject (if the device supports
              ejection of the medium).

       capacity
              Read Capacity reports the number of blocks and the block size of
              a disk.

       The following commands are specific to CD and CD-R/RW devices.  A brief
       description of each is given; see the SCSI-3 Multimedia Commands  (MMC)
       Specification  for  details  of arguments and interpretation of the re‐
       sults.

       blank [track/LBA[type]]
              Erase a CD-RW disk.  Type identifies the method and coverage  of
              the blanking.

       rtoc [track/session-number[ses]]
              The  Read  TOC/PMA command transfers data from one of the tables
              of contents (TOC or PMA) on the CD medium.

       rdiscinfo
              (Note the spelling.)  Provides information about disks,  includ‐
              ing incomplete CD-R/RW.

       rtrackinfo [track]
              Provides information about a track, regardless of its status.

       cdpause

       cdresume
              Pause/resume playback.

       cdstop Stop playback.

       cdplay [track-number] or [-r[LBA[length]]]
              Play  audio.   With no arguments, starts at the beginning of the
              medium.  If a track number is given, the table  of  contents  is
              read  to  find  the  playback  start point.  If the -r option is
              given, block addressing is  used  to  find  the  playback  start
              point.

       cdload [slot]

       cdunload [slot]
              Load/unload a disk from a changer.

       cdstatus
              Read the mechanism status.

       The  following commands are specific to Media Changer devices.  A brief
       description of each is given; see the SCSI-3  Medium  Changer  Commands
       (SMC) Specification for details of arguments.

       einit  Initialize element status.

       estatus type [length]
              Report  the status of the internal elements.  Type 0 reports all
              element types.

       mmove transport source destination[invert]
              Move medium.

FILES
       /dev/sdXX/raw
              raw SCSI interface for command, I/O, and status.

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/scuzz

SEE ALSO
       sd(3)
       Small Computer System Interface - 2 (X3T9.2/86-109), Global Engineering
       Documents
       SCSI Bench Reference, ENDL Publications
       SCSI-3 Multimedia Commands (MMC) Specification, www.t10.org
       SCSI-3 Medium Changer Commands (SMC) Specification, www.t10.org

BUGS
       Only  a  limited  subset  of  SCSI  commands  has  been implemented (as
       needed).

       Only one target can be open at a time.

       LUNs other than 0 are not supported.

       No way to force 10-byte commands, though they are the default.

       Should be recoded to use scsi(2) in order to get  more  complete  sense
       code descriptions.

       Scuzz  betrays  its  origins by spelling rdiscinfo with a c even though
       the devices it manipulates are spelled with a k.

       The max-xfer value is currently limited to 245760 to limit kernel  mem‐
       ory consumption.

       It  may  be necessary to set max-xfer to exactly the block size used to
       write a tape in order to read it on some drives.



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