Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:23:23 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying SCSI waiting... Message-ID: <p06110423bd9f1b6312ed@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <41796396.5070804@freebsd.org> References: <417960C2.8040007@freebsd.org> <20041022194008.GA23778@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <41796396.5070804@freebsd.org>
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At 1:46 PM -0600 10/22/04, Scott Long wrote: > >This is not just a problem with old disk drives, it's a problem >with some cdrom and many tape drives. Maybe it can be set to 15 >only if the sa, cd, and/or ch drivers are present. That still >doesn't solve the problem with GENERIC, and I would like to keep >GENERIC as compatible as possible. One data point: I have dropped that value to 7 seconds (or less) on every FreeBSD system I have ever built, for at least six or seven years now. That goes back to a 60-MHz pentium, iirc (it was a mean machine back when it was released, with a price-tag to match. That machine is still the most expensive PC I have ever bought!). I don't know how low of a value would be safe, but I think we could safely pick a value which is less than 15 seconds. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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