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SG_SAT_PHY_EVENT(8)		   SG3_UTILS		   SG_SAT_PHY_EVENT(8)

NAME
       sg_sat_phy_event	- use ATA READ LOG EXT via a SAT pass-through to fetch
       SATA phy	event counters

SYNOPSIS
       sg_sat_phy_event	 [--ck_cond]  [--extend]  [--help]  [--hex] [--ignore]
       [--len={16|12}] [--raw] [--reset] [--verbose] [--version] DEVICE

DESCRIPTION
       This utility sends an ATA READ LOG EXT with the	log  page  ("address")
       set  to 11h to DEVICE and outputs the response. Log page	11h is defined
       in the SATA 2.5 standard	and contains phy event counters.  Rather  than
       send this command directly to the DEVICE, 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 de-
	      fault 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 de-
	      scriptor if the command failed.

       -e, --extend
	      sets the EXTEND bit in the ATA PASS-THROUGH SCSI	cdb.  The  de-
	      fault  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 READ LOG EXT 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  prefer-
	      ence).   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.

       -i, --ignore
	      usually the phy counter identifier names are decoded. When  this
	      option  is given,	the numeric value of the identifier is output,
	      the vendor flag, the data	length (in bytes) and the  correspond-
	      ing value.

       -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 con-
	      vey SCSI commands	longer than 12 bytes.

       -r, --raw
	      output the ATA READ LOG  EXT  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.

       -R, --reset
	      reset the	counters after the current values  are	returned,  de-
	      coded and	displayed.

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

       -V, --version
	      print out	version	string

NOTES
       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.	Other-
       wise see	the sg3_utils(8) man page.

AUTHOR
       Written by Douglas Gilbert

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <dgilbert	at interlog dot	com>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2006-2020 Douglas Gilbert
       This software is	distributed under a BSD-2-Clause license. There	is  NO
       warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR-
       POSE.

SEE ALSO
       sg_sat_identify,sg_sat_read_gplog(sg3_utils),
       smp_rep_phy_err_log(smp_utils),sdparm(sdparm),hdparm(hdparm)

sg3_utils-1.46			   July	2020		   SG_SAT_PHY_EVENT(8)

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