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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 -d [true/false] -v [true/false] device info -h [true/false] -w [prefix] <device-path/aaru-remote-host>

-d, --debug [true/false] shows debug output (default false)
-v, --verbose [true/false] shows verbose output (default false)
-h, --help [true/false] shows help screen for the command instead of running it, ignores all other switches (default false)
-w, --output-prefix [prefix] writes binary responses from device to that prefix
<aaru-remote-host> connects to an Aaru Remote Host with aaru://<IP ADDRESS>

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 No¹ Yes Yes
SCSI MultiMedia device Yes Not yet² Yes Yes
SCSI Streaming device Yes No¹ Yes Yes
Parallel ATA No³ No¹ Yes Yes
Serial ATA Yes No¹ Yes Yes
USB Partial⁴ Partial⁵ Yes Yes
FireWire Partial⁶ Partial⁵ Yes Partial⁶
PCMCIA Partial⁷ Partial⁵ Yes Partial⁷
SecureDigital / MultiMediaCard Not yet⁸ No¹ Yes Untested⁹
  1. 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. Only MultiMedia devices can be supported and descriptors will not be retrieved
  6. FireWire descriptors are not retrieved
  7. PCMCIA CIS is not retrieved
  8. Support will come with FreeBSD 12-RELEASE
  9. Should work, untested due to no available hardware
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