Reporting physical device capabilities

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

Command description

This operation will test a physical device for its read capabilities. If the media is removable, it will ask you to insert different media on it, as read capabilities vary with different media. The report will be saved in the executing directory, and sent to us. Shared reports can be seen in http://aaru.app

Command usage

Aaru device report [options] <device-path>

Arguments

<device-path> Device path

Options

-t, --trap-disc=[true/false] does a device report using a trap disc (default false)
-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 report /dev/cd0
Linux: Aaru device-report /dev/sdb
Windows: Aaru device-report \\.\PhysicalDrive3

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