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Date:      Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:31:10 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        Eduard Martinescu <martines@rochester.rr.com>, Don Lewis <dl@catspoiler.org>
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smartmontools on FreeBSD 4.x - compile error + ahc card dump
Message-ID:  <541C4626CFE225AF94C9747A@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: <1094312840.9777.3.camel@sauron.crafts4life.com>
References:  <200409031840.i83IenAj029786@gw.catspoiler.org> <1094312840.9777.3.camel@sauron.crafts4life.com>

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> As for the SCSI issues, that is something new.  I added the passing in
> of a time out value because it was causing problems for others without
> that value...the commands would time out too soon.

0 == CAM_TIME_DEFAULT.  The behavior will likely vary wildly depending
on the controller.  It would be much better to specify a true timeout
value if you know an acceptable value for the timeout.

Timeouts are there to serve a watchdog purpose.  A good timeout value
will never cause a false positive but is short enough that recovery
can occur in a reasonable amount of time.  It seems that your current
timeout choices are causing false positives.

--
Justin



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