Re: device failure hangs the system

[Anand Jain <Anand.Jain@oracle.com>]

Josef,


> Well that's a neat trick, do you have a way to undo that action too?
> Seems a rescan doesn't make it show back up.


hope the following helps..
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  # fdisk -l /dev/sdg | egrep "Disk /"
  Disk /dev/sdg: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes

  # x=`ls -l /sys/class/block/sdg | cut -d "/" -f12 | sed 's/:/ /g'`
  # echo "scsi remove-single-device ${x}" > /proc/scsi/scsi

  # fdisk -l /dev/sdg | egrep "Disk /"

  # echo "scsi add-single-device ${x}" > /proc/scsi/scsi

  # fdisk -l /dev/sdg | egrep "Disk /"
  Disk /dev/sdg: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
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>  Please try the patch I just posted to the list to fix this problem.  Thanks,

  Facing some challenges to upgrade my machine to 3.0.0-rc6, so is
  the delay.

  Thanks for the patch.

Anand

> Josef