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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DAT Hell Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:13:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4qgo0o$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pvmjj$flb@mercury.mcs.com> <4q0j0s$h0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31C8A0C4.15FB7483@rwwa.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> wrote: > > bump the > > 300000 to something that makes the operation safe for you. Once you > > found it, multiply it by 2, and use /usr/bin/send-pr to submit your > > new value so we can integrate it into the driver. > > But gee. Isn't there some better way of doing this, like > a system variable or something? Otherwise, why isn't > infinity a good value? Since it might jam your SCSI controller in case of some hardware failure (or firmware bug of a SCSI device), leaving only a reboot as a possible recovery strategy. SCSI timeouts are similar tradeoffs like all other timeouts. If you make them too short, they might still be to short in case the resource was actually still available, but slow to respond. If you make it large, it will hang your system for a long time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)