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To: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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Subject: Re: Whew!!!!!!! (MAJOR sigh of relief!) 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:31:53 -0800
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>Along the way, I discovered that the BT driver handles timeouts and 
>aborts very badly...  I also discovered that the timeout for the scsi "READ" 
>command is too short.  The command timed out before the drive had given 
>up on trying to recover the data..

   I think you can make a much more general statement: "With few exceptions,
all of our SCSI drivers handle timeouts and aborts very badly."

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project