scsi_eh_try_stu(9)

🎀 scsi_eh_try_stu(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the scsi_eh_try_stu(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — and it’s literally about sending START_UNIT to a device. short, sweet, iconic 💖

✨ NAME ✨

• scsi_eh_try_stu — Send START_UNIT to device.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int scsi_eh_try_stu (struct scsi_cmnd *scmd );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• scmd — the scsi_cmnd to send START_UNIT to. that’s the whole argument, periodt.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Return value: 0 - Device is ready. 1 - Device NOT ready.

like, that’s literally the return value list: 0 means the device is ready, and 1 means the device is NOT ready. no extra lore, no secret third option, okay? 😭✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c

go read these too, bestie, they’re all in the same Unixy group chat:

• scsi_schedule_eh(9)
• scmd_eh_abort_handler(9)
• scsi_abort_command(9)
• scsi_eh_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_scmd_add(9)
• scsi_timeout(9)
• scsi_block_when_processing_errors(9)
• scsi_eh_prt_fail_stats(9)
• scsi_report_sense(9)
• scsi_check_sense(9)
• scsi_eh_completed_normally(9)
• scsi_eh_done(9)
• scsi_try_host_reset(9)
• scsi_try_bus_reset(9)
• scsi_try_target_reset(9)
• scsi_try_bus_device_reset(9)
• scsi_try_to_abort_cmd(9)
• scsi_eh_prep_cmnd(9)
• scsi_eh_restore_cmnd(9)
• scsi_send_eh_cmnd(9)
• scsi_request_sense(9)
• scsi_eh_finish_cmd(9)
• scsi_eh_get_sense(9)
• scsi_eh_tur(9)
• scsi_eh_test_devices(9)
• scsi_eh_bus_device_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_target_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_bus_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_host_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_offline_sdevs(9)
• scsi_noretry_cmd(9)
• scsi_decide_disposition(9)
• scsi_eh_lock_door(9)
• scsi_restart_operations(9)
• scsi_eh_ready_devs(9)
• scsi_eh_flush_done_q(9)
• scsi_unjam_host(9)
• scsi_error_handler(9)
• scsi_report_bus_reset(9)
• scsi_report_device_reset(9)
• scsi_ioctl_reset(9)
• scsi_get_sense_info_fld(9)

source/version + date check: this page comes from ./drivers/scsi, dated October 2026, and it’s the scsi_eh_try_stu(9) manual page. bye bestie, slay your SCSI error handling 💜🫶