From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 1 05:08:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA23989 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 05:08:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.175.134.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA23984 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 05:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schilling@fokus.gmd.de) Received: from sherwood.gmd.de (sherwood [193.175.133.102]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20932; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:08:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from jes@localhost) by sherwood.gmd.de (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id OAA16974; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:07:51 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:07:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joerg Schilling Message-Id: <199806011207.OAA16974@sherwood.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 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message