On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:21 -0700, Ed Lin wrote: > After reset completed, the scsi error handler sends out START_STOP > and TEST_UNIT_READY to the device. For 'normal' devices these > commands will be handled by firmware. However, because the RAID > console only interfaces to scsi mid layer, the firmware will not process > these commands for it. This will make the console to be offlined right > after reset. Add the handling in driver to fix this problem. I don't see how this explanation can be correct. The error handler only sends a START_STOP command if sdev->allow_restart is one, which you have to set in the slave_configure routines (which stex doesn't). If you're seeing a START_STOP in the eh path, there's something else wrong. TEST_UNIT_READY, certainly ... it's part of a restart check. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html