From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 11:25:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC39B37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:25:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16gsea-0003Vq-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 19:25:16 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 02ABD13040 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:25:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 44CC5225C1; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:25:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:25:13 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 15...14...13...12 SCSI drives getting comfortable... Message-ID: <20020301192513.GA2147@raggedclown.net> References: <20020301173532.GB421@raggedclown.net> <20020301190706.A90951@drex.staff.izr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020301190706.A90951@drex.staff.izr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:07:06PM +0000, Mark Drayton wrote: > Rick Hamell (hamellr@heorot.1nova.com) wrote: > > > Why does FreeBSD waut 15 seconds for SCSI devices to "settle". I > > > noticed NetBSD considers 2 seconds suffient to find the comfy chair. > > > > For older drives and controllers, especially Tape drives... I believe > > you can reset that in the Kernal. > > You can indeed: > > options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI > Oh, I know it is configurable, but being a curious sort of person I often wonder where these numbers come from, 15 seconds sounds like a lifetime in this context :). -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message