Getting information from a physical device

Table of Contents Command description Command usage Arguments Options Example Operating system support

Command description

This operation will request and show all information about a physical device. For information about supported physical devices check the list of supported physical devices

Command usage

Aaru device info [options] <device-path>

Arguments

<device-path> Device path

Options

--output-prefix, -w=[prefix] writes binary responses from device to that prefix
-v, --verbose=[true/false] shows verbose output (default false)
-d, --debug=[true/false] shows debug output (default false)
--pause=[true/false] pauses before exiting. (default false)
-?, -h, --help=[true/false] show help and usage information (default false)

Example

FreeBSD: Aaru device info /dev/cd0
Linux: Aaru device info /dev/sda
Windows: Aaru device info D:

Operating system support

Device type	FreeBSD	macOS	Linux	Windows
SCSI Block device	Yes	No [1]	Yes	Yes
SCSI MultiMedia device	Yes	Not yet [2]	Yes	Yes
SCSI Streaming device	Yes	No [1]	Yes	Yes
Parallel ATA	No [3]	No [1]	Yes	Yes
Serial ATA	Yes	No [1]	Yes	Yes
USB	Partial [4]	Partial [5]	Yes	Yes
FireWire	Partial [6]	Partial [5]	Yes	Partial [6]
PCMCIA	Partial [7]	Partial [5]	Yes	Partial [7]
SecureDigital / MultiMediaCard	Not yet [8]	No [1]	Yes	Untested [9]

1. a b c d e macOS only allows talking with MultiMedia devices
2. ^ Support for MultiMedia devices in macOS will be added if users require it
3. ^ Not supported due to upstream bug
4. ^ USB descriptors are not retrieved
5. a b c Only MultiMedia devices can be supported and descriptors will not be retrieved
6. a b FireWire descriptors are not retrieved
7. a b PCMCIA CIS is not retrieved
8. ^ Support will come with FreeBSD 12-RELEASE
9. ^ Should work, untested due to not available hardware