In the last episode (Oct 22), Scott Long said: > For just about everyone, a value of 2 seconds or less is just fine. > For those with tape drives, changers, and (less likely) cdroms, a > long delay after reset is still quite necessary. There are two knobs > to adjust this, and I'd like GENERIC to remain compatible. It's 15 > seconds, not 2 minutes. You get a longer delay that that just trying > to set up the inital page tables on a large memory machine! I don't think the scsi code even does a bus reset, does it? That should have already been done by the card BIOS during bootup, if at all. I have have been setting it to 1s for at least 5 years, on systems with SCSI disks, CD-Rs, autoloaders, and tape drives (dds and dlt) with no ill effects. -- Dan Nelson dnelson_at_allantgroup.comReceived on Fri Oct 22 2004 - 19:08:07 UTC
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