Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:25:42 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: babkin@FreeBSD.org Cc: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111192025150.69741-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <3BF9D79B.4BFB72D1@bellatlantic.net>
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It's been a really long time. Sigh. But it seems to me that it would be quite conceivable to have an MO just hang trying to write for a while. On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The MO drives that I've used (these old 1.3GB disks) were nowhere > > > > that slow. The speed like of a 10-year-old hard disk can be expected > > > > from them. So I'd say that 5 minutes is a large overkill, something > > > > like 5 seconds would be more appropriate. Of course unless this > > > > particular model has a very large write chache. > > > > > > Or autofixate. > > > > Skip that- I don't know what I was thinking. > > Hm, do you imply the WORM disks ? I had no experience with these, > I've used only the rewritable MO disks. > > > I was recalling that the tahiti maxoptix drive would periodically go away for > > a while- maybe a laser recal. > > My experience was with Maxoptix and HP drives (on SCO UNIX > and HP-UX) and I don't remember anything like this. Though maybe > I just forgot something. I don't even think that they had a > long delay on read errors - instead they just returned the corrupted > data. > > -SB > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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