From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 6 21:38:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7827A1065675 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:38:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from n0oct@sbcglobal.net) Received: from nlpi025.prodigy.net (nlpi025.sbcis.sbc.com [207.115.36.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EAD8FC1A for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:38:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from n0oct@sbcglobal.net) Received: from shirley.brainski.com (adsl-70-237-223-155.dsl.stlsmo.sbcglobal.net [70.237.223.155]) (authenticated bits=0) by nlpi025.prodigy.net (8.13.8 smtpauth/dk/map_regex/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB6LQoKp013190 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:26:51 -0600 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:26:49 -0600 From: jim smith To: freebsd-hardware@freeBSD.org Message-Id: <20081206152649.e991d54b.n0oct@sbcglobal.net> Organization: Amateur Radio Staion N0OCT X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Western Digital hard disks and ATA timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:38:50 -0000 On 7Nov, 2008, at 20:12 , Peter Wemm wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Jeremy Chadwick =20 > wrote: > [..] >> As stated, FreeBSD's ATA command timeout is hard-set to 5 seconds, =20= >> and >> is not adjustable without editing the ATA code yourself and =20 >> increasing >> the value. . . .and where in the code is this? I've got some drives I'd like to experiment with. Thanks. -- jim smith