[Announce] sg3_utils 1.42 and sdparm 1.10

[Douglas Gilbert]

I recently released these two SCSI support packages, information
and downloads on these pages:
   http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
   http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdparm.html

Recent betas of some of my other packages (e.g. smp_utils and ddpt)
have links at the top of this page:
   http://sg.danny.cz/sg/index.html

Note that lsscsi is Linux only and is roughly equivalent to
'camcontrol devlist'.


Changelog for sg3_utils-1.42 [20160217] [svn: r663]
   - sg_timestamp: new, to report or set timestamp
   - sg_read_attr: new, supported by tape drives
   - sg_stpg: fix truncation of target port field
   - sg_inq: cope with unicode strings, udev fixes
     - update version descriptor list to 20160125
     - '--export': new entries for UUID descriptor
   - sg_ses: add more field acronyms (ses3r11)
   - sg_logs: add Utilization lpage (sbc4r07)
     - add Background operation lpage
     - add Pending defects lpage
     - add LPS misalignment lpage (sbc4r10)
     - document '--All' ('-A') option
     - rework lto tape vendor lpages
   - sg_vpd: add Block limits extension VPD page
     - add Device constituents VPD page
     - add LB Protection VPD page (ssc 15-296r1)
     - LB provisioning VPD page: expand LBPRZ, add
       Minimum and Threshold percentage fields
     - rework lto tape vendor VPD pages
   - sg_inq+sg_vpd+sg_xcopy: add support for locally
     assigned UUIDs in VPD page 0x83 (15-267r2)
   - sg_sanitize: add --znr option (sbc4r07)
   - sg_rep_zones: add --partial option (zbc-r04)
   - sg_format: add ffmt option (sbc4r10)
     - add support for FORMAT MEDIUM (for tape)
   - sg_raw: document length relationships
   - rescan-scsi-bus.sh: updates from Suse
   - sg_lib_data: sync asc/ascq codes with T10 20151126
   - sg_lib: add 'sense' categories for SCSI statuses:
     condition met, busy, task set full, ACA active and
     task aborted
     - add pr2serr() extern
     - change sg_get_sense_str() and dStrHexStr(), return
       chars written (returned void previously)
     - add sg_get_sense_descriptors_str() function
     - add sg_get_designation_descriptor_str() function
     - sg_get_desig_type_str()+sg_get_desig_assoc_str()
       and sg_get_desig_code_set_str() added
     - sg_get_opcode_sa_name() break out zoning in/out,
       read attribute and read position service actions
   - sg_cmds_extra: add sg_ll_format_unit2() for FFMT
   - sg_pr2serr.h: new, to shorten fprintf(stderr, ...)
   - sg_io_linux, sg_pt_linux: drop SUGGEST_* decoding
   - sg_unaligned.h: add 48 bit support and gets for
     variable length unsigned integers

Changelog for sg3_utils-1.41 [20150511] [svn: r644]
...


ChangeLog for sdparm-1.10 [20160222] [svn: r279]
   - add --inhex=FN option for decoding without device present,
     FN is interpreted as response to mode sense(10) command
   - add --raw option to interpret FN as binary (def: ASCII hex)
   - add --pdt=PDT option for use with --inhex=FN
   - --quiet used twice hides changeable, default + saved
   - add IO advice hints grouping mode page (sbc4r06, 8)
   - add Unit serial number VPD page specific sanity check
   - add NO_PI_CHK to Supported block lengths and protection
     types VPD page
   - add Background operation control mpage (sbc4r07)
   - Read-write error recovery mpage: add Misaligned writes
     reporting field (MWR)
   - sync tape mpages with ssc5r02
   - add Block limits extension VPD page
   - add Device constituents VPD page
   - add LB protection VPD page (ssc5r02a)
   - LB provisioning VPD page: expand LBPRZ, add Minimum and
     Threshold percentage fields
   - device identification VPD page: add decoding for locally
     assigned UUIDs (spc5r08)
   - the --inhex=FN option together with --inquiry decodes
     FN as a single VPD page
   - improve lto5 and lto6 vendor mpage support
   - sync to spc5r08 and sbc4r10
   - add SAS G5 (22.5 Gbps) settings (spl4r06)
   - point svn:externals to rev 663 of sg3_utils
   - upgrade automake to version 1.15 (U15.10)
   - autogen.sh: upgrade to buildconf 20091223 version

ChangeLog for sdparm-1.09 [20141226] [svn: r257]
...

Doug Gilbert