Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jun 2003 04:41:32 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: Patches for SCSI timeout bug |
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> 2) By incresing the sym53c8xx post-reset delay to at least > 12 seconds. > > Fix 2) may not be bad: I have at least one scsi hard drive which > takes 5 seconds to recover from a bus reset. On the other hand, > fix 2) makes the boot process longer: it introduces a delay of > N x 12 seconds, where N is the number of scsi channels. > (Most cards have two channels; some server-class machines with > many cards may have a significantly longer boot).
Yep, Ive got a box with 42 scsi controllers and the time to probe SCSI is already unbearable :)
So I like fix 1 as well.
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