Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:13:04 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? Message-ID: <199809301819.MAA14837@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:58:58 CDT." <19980930125858.B4304@Denninger.Net>
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>The default was recently increased (read: made longer) - like doubled. The delay in the generic kernel has always been 15 seconds. The default with no delay specified has always been 2 seconds. CAM effectively reduces this delay over the old SCSI code as all bus delays during the initial prove phase occur in parallel. >I *KNOW* that things like Exabytes "go away" for short periods of time >after a bus reset. But we're talking about *defaults* here, and modern >disks and tape drives, while they may kvetch internally for a while before >they'll generally be useful, but virtually all will respond to an inquiry >within 3-5 seconds - maximum. Not everyone who uses FreeBSD has "modern devices". Not everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that their devices will only work with a longish delay. Are you saying that we should lose the ability to install on these machines simply because you, a user that knows how to modify this behavior, finds the default behavior annoying? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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