Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:07:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> To: mike@smith.net.au, schilling@fokus.gmd.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrecord trouble on currnet / SCSI ABI test Message-ID: <199806011207.OAA16974@sherwood.gmd.de>
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>From mike@dingo.cdrom.com Fri May 29 22:20:41 1998
>> For this reason, I prefer to have some ABI checker software.
>Alan Turing.
>> But for timeout tests not every CD-ROM drive is usable because the only=
>> idea I currently have to force a SCSI timeout is to do one very big
>> SCSi-VERIFY on a disk with > 400MB data on it. This is because not all
>> timeout implementations catch timeouts fast (< 1 minute).
>Build a small board containing a 5380 and a microcontroller. Write =
>some minimal SCSI target software, and put a console on it. =
>You could probably sell 5-10 of these to SCSI driver authors.
I believe that this effort is not worth it.
The only problem I see when using a CD-ROM drive is that it must support
the verify SCSI command in order to be able to check timeouts.
Jörg
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