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Date:      Thu, 05 Sep 1996 17:15:31 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Matt Hamilton <matt@boris.clintondale.com>
Cc:        frf <frf@qcworld.com>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: status of kern/1157 
Message-ID:  <199609060015.RAA00176@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Sep 1996 18:53:11 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.960905185125.622A-100000@boris.clintondale.com> 

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>> This is not the same problem.  Most likely one of the timeout values in
>> the st driver is too short for something that your tape is doing (perhaps
>> a recalibration??) and is bailing prematurely.  I would bet that if you
>> upped the timeouts in the st driver, the problem would go away.
>
>How do I raise the timeouts?  I have tried raising them in
>sys/scsi/scsi_base and that had no effect.  Should I just be able to
>rebuild the kernel normally after that or do I need to do anything
>special.
>
>-Matt 

You need to up them either in each call to scsi_scsi_cmd in st.c or make
the timeout something huge in scsi_scsi_cmd simply ignoring the passed
in value.  You should be able to simply rebuild a kernel after modifying
that file.  The timeout is specified in ms.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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