has two modes of operation: dump and restore. These can be used with physical storage media, including hard drives and magneto optical drives. Dump mode can be used with read-only media such as CD/DVD drives.
When operating in dump mode, scsidump will copy all data from a remote SCSI drive to an image on the local filesystem. If enabled, it will also generate a .properties file that can be used to more closely emulate the source drive.
If you are operating in restore mode, scsidump will copy the data from a local binary image to a remote physical SCSI drive. The remote SCSI drive MUST be writable.
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requires either a direct connection (one without transceivers) or a FULLSPEC PiSCSI/RaSCSI board.
If the generated drive image is intended to be used with PiSCSI, the drive image should be moved by the user to ~/images (or the location specified to the piscsi service).
Generate a .properties file that is compatible with the PiSCSI web interface. The output filename will match the image filename with ".properties" appended. The generated file should be moved to ~/.config/piscsi.
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Dump Mode: [SCSI Drive] ---> [PiSCSI host]
Launch scsidump to dump an all data from SCSI ID 3 with block size 64 KiB, store it to the local filesystem as a drive image named outimage.hda, and generate the outimage.hda.properties file with the drive's INQUIRY information:
scsidump -t 3 -f ./outimage.hda -s 65536 -p
Restore Mode: [PiSCSI host] ---> [SCSI Drive]
Launch scsidump to restore/upload a drive image from the local file system to SCSI ID 0 with block size 1MiB: