From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Aug 15 13:59:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA21188 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lassie.eunet.fi (lassie.eunet.fi [192.26.119.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21175 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from key.hole.fi by lassie.eunet.fi with SMTP id AA06485 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:59:12 +0300 Received: (from count@localhost) by key.hole.fi (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA00463; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:59:11 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Bror 'Count' Heinola" Message-Id: <199608152059.XAA00463@key.hole.fi> Subject: Re: Pioneer CD changer problem To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:59:11 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608151944.VAA01875@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 15, 96 09:44:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch taisi sanoa: > > Can you here it swapping the disk in by the same time? Does it > continue to fail even after a few attempts? Yes, and yes. > The timeouts in the existing driver are way too short to properly > handle CD changers. I've got a Nakamichi on loan to test and fix > this, but defered all my CD-ROM work until Justin's changes are in the > tree to avoid massively diverging drivers. The current way of timeout > handling sucks rocks, all timeouts are wild guesses, and there's no > way to centrally maintain them. Each and every call to > scsi_scsi_cmd() specifies its own idea of what timeout might be > appropriate. Ah... Well, if it will help anything, I can also loan this beast out to someone who can use it to do something useful development work. Anyways, any pointers to the code where I might go and change the current timeout values? -- Bror 'Count' Heinola % count@key.hole.fi % http://pobox.com/~count/ Pengerkatu 13b A5 % IRC: Count NIC: BH271 % FI-00530 HELSINKI % Work: bror@sms.fi % Roads? Where we're going, Cell: +358-40-5533-554 % Santa Monica Software % we don't need roads.