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Re: Long Timeout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kai M{kisara)
Wed Jul 2 07:27:01 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 13:39:37 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Kai M{kisara <makisara@abies.metla.fi>
Reply-To: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi
To: KD <KDombrofsky@compuserve.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707020351_MC2-19A6-953C@compuserve.com>
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, KD wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> In linux/drivers/scsi/st.c, there is a LONG_TIMEOUT of 14 seconds.
LONG_TIMEOUT in st.c is actually 14000 s = 3.89 hours. Additionally, it is
multiplied by 8 for the MTOFFl and MTERASE commands. The timeout has been
made longer when someone has found the current value too small. Lately
there have been very few requests :-)
This timeout applies only to tape commands. What you are actually looking
for is something related to disk access.
Kai
