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sg3_utils-1.05 released: msg#00155

Subject: sg3_utils-1.05 released
Tarball and rpms can be found on http://www.torque.net/sg .
Summary of sg3_utils, sg_utils and other packages are on
this page: http://www.torque.net/sg/u_index.html
A release announcement will be sent to freshmeat.net
shortly.

Changelog for sg3_utils-1.05 [20031112]
  - sginfo: major rework; add IE page, clean up control, cache +
        disconnect pages (as per SPC-3 and SBC-2).
      - when storing, update saved page (change from previous
        version)
      - use 10 byte mode sense and select by default (override
        with '-6')
      - mode subpage support
  - sg_dd, sgm_dd + sgp_dd:
      - 64 bit capable (read capacity; count, skip and seek
        values).
      - numerical arguments accept hex (prefixed by '0x' or '0X')
      - require bpt > 0
      - fix problem when reading /dev/null
  - sg_dd: Treat SIGUSR1 properly: print stats and continue;
  - sgp_dd: reduce READ CAPACITY response size to 8 bytes
  - sg_read: require bpt > 0
  - sg_test_rwbuf: switch from sg_header to sg_io_hdr interface
    N.B. After these changes no sg3_utils utilities (in the
    main directory) use the sg_header interface
  - sg_scan: switch from sg_header to sg_io_hdr interface
  - sg_senddiag: increase extended foreground timeout to 60
    minutes
  - sg_inq: add names of peripheral device types
  - sg_readcap: show total size in bytes, MB, GB
  - sg_logs: read log pages twice (first time to get response
    length), for fragile HBAs; decode Seagate 0x37 + 0x3e
    pages; display pcbs
  - sg_modes: fix core dump when corrupted response, don't
    print extra pages
  - sg_map: increase sg device scanning from 128 to 256
  - change man page references from lk 2.5 to lk 2.6
  - examples/sg_iovec_tst: added testing sg_iovec (sg_io_hdr
    iovec's)
  - utils/hxascdmp: add utility for displaying ASCII hex

Doug Gilbert

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