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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:25:13 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 15...14...13...12 SCSI drives getting comfortable...
Message-ID:  <20020301192513.GA2147@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020301190706.A90951@drex.staff.izr.com>
References:  <20020301173532.GB421@raggedclown.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203011126030.7441-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20020301190706.A90951@drex.staff.izr.com>

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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:07:06PM +0000, Mark Drayton wrote:
> Rick Hamell (hamellr@heorot.1nova.com) wrote:
> > > Why does FreeBSD waut 15 seconds for SCSI devices to "settle".  I
> > > noticed NetBSD considers 2 seconds suffient to find the comfy chair.
> > 
> > For older drives and controllers, especially Tape drives... I believe
> > you can reset that in the Kernal.
> 
> You can indeed:
> 
> options         SCSI_DELAY=15000   #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
> 
Oh, I know it is configurable, but being a curious sort of person I
often wonder where these numbers come from, 15 seconds sounds like a
lifetime in this context :).

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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