Sends one or more SCSI VERIFY commands to DEVICE. It is the 10 byte
VERIFY command defined for block devices (see SBC-2 at http://www.t10.org).
Verify starts at the logical block address given by the --lba=LBA
option and continues for --count=COUNT blocks. No more than
--bpc=BPC blocks are verified by each VERIFY command so if necessary
multiple VERIFY commands are sent. No news is good news (i.e. if there are
no verify errors detected no messages are sent to stderr and the Unix return
status is 0).
OPTIONS
Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.
The options are arranged in alphabetical order based on the long
option name.
-b, --bpc=BPC
where BPC specifies the maximum number of blocks that will be verified
by a single SCSI VERIFY command. The default value is 128 blocks which
equates to 64 KB for a disk with 512 byte blocks. If BPC is less than
COUNT then multiple SCSI VERIFY commands are sent to the device. For
recent block devices (disks) this value may be constrained by the maximum
transfer length field in the block limits VPD page.
-c, --count=COUNT
where COUNT specifies the number of blocks to verify. The default value
is 1 . If COUNT is greater than BPC (or its default value of 128)
then multiple SCSI VERIFY commands are sent to the device. The
sg_readcap
utility can be used to find the maximum number of blocks that a block
device (e.g. a disk) has.
-d, --dpo
disable page out changes the cache retention priority of blocks read on
the device's cache to the lowest priority. This means that blocks read by
other commands are more likely to remain in the device's cache.
-h, --help
output the usage message then exit.
-l, --lba=LBA
where LBA specifies the logical block address of the first block to
start the verify operation. LBA is assumed to be decimal unless prefixed
by '0x' or a trailing 'h' (see below). The default value is 0 (i.e. the start
of the device).
-v, --verbose
increase the level of verbosity, (i.e. debug output).
-V, --version
print the version string and then exit.
-P, --vrprotect=VRP
where VRP is the value in the vrprotect field in the VERIFY command
cdb. It must be a value between 0 and 7 inclusive. The default value is
zero.
NOTES
Various numeric arguments (e.g. LBA) may include multiplicative
suffixes or be given in hexadecimal. See the "NUMERIC ARGUMENTS" section
in the sg3_utils(8) man page.
The amount of error correction and the number of retries attempted
before a block is considered defective are controlled in part by the
Verify Error Recovery mode page. A note in the SBC-2 (draft)
standard advises that to minimize the number of checks (and hence
have the most "sensitive" verify check) do the following in that
mode page. Set the EER bit to 0, the PER bit to 1, the DTE bit to 1,
the DCR bit to 1, the verify retry count to 0 and the verify error
recovery timeout to 0. Mode pages can be modified with the
sginfo
utility.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status of sg_verify is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise see
the sg3_utils(8) man page.