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Re: Long Timeout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Popov)
Wed Jul 2 15:11:12 1997
To: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi
cc: KD <KDombrofsky@compuserve.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jul 1997 13:39:37 +0300."
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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 12:07:39 -0700
From: Pete Popov <pete@jones.asd.sel.sony.com>
Kai,
> 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 :-)
3.89 hours should be enough :-)
> This timeout applies only to tape commands. What you are actually looking
> for is something related to disk access.
I've seen mail regarding this issue -- disk driver timeout resets bus
because the tape is usuing it and the driver thinks there is a bus
hang -- but I don't know if there has been any solution suggestion.
Where is the disk driver timeout?
Pete
