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Date:      Sat, 30 May 1998 05:45:11 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdrecord trouble on currnet / SCSI ABI test
Message-ID:  <19980530054511.13601@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805291915.MAA00509@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, May 29, 1998 at 12:15:53PM -0700
References:  <199805291720.TAA15036@sherwood.gmd.de> <199805291915.MAA00509@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > 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.

What I'd do for this kind of testing is equip a FreeBSD machine with a
well-known work SCSI-controller (probably an NCR), and emulate a
target from that end :-)

It is possible this is due to my lack of hardware building experience,
but I still like FreeBSD better than microcontrollers :-)

Eivind.


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