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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!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: 27 Jun 1996 19:46:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4quof1$9p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pvmjj$flb@mercury.mcs.com> <4q0j0s$h0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31C8A0C4.15FB7483@rwwa.com> <4qgo0o$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31D027F0.41C67EA6@baynetworks.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 <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> wrote: > Yes, but what I am saying is ``isn't there a better way than > tweaking the code?'' You didn't comment o the system variable > approach. The problem is that there are far too many different timeout values for the different SCSI commands. Perhaps one might classify them and see which ones must be adjustable, but still then, you have to assign them on a per-device basis (not per-driver), since e.g. a Sony DAT will require far more time to rewind than the good ol' Archive Viper you happen to have in the same machine (using the same `st' driver). -- 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. ;-)