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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: How to resurrect offlined SCSI devices?
Date: 26 May 2004 09:45:46 -0500
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On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 08:14, Martin Peschke3 wrote:
> Is there a SCSI mid layer interface that allows an lldd to get a
> SCSI devices back online?

actually

echo "running" > /sys/...<device path>.../state

will work from user land.

Really, it isn't safe for a LLD to try to bring a device back online on
its own without user intervention.

James