Annoying SCSI waiting...

[Scott Long]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> 
> Andre Oppermann wrote:
> 
>> Can't we just reduce the annoying:
>>
>>  Waiting 15 second for SCSI devices to settle
>>
>> to something shorter like 5 seconds in GENERIC?  I know perfectly well 
>> where it
>> came from but these days not many of those slow disks are still around.
> 
> 
> 
> Actually I'll wager money you DON'T know where it came from because it's 
> really obscure :-)
> 
> When I wrote the original SCSI code I wrote it for MACH and only later 
> did I port it to 386BSD
> from which it went to FreeBSD (and is still in NetBSD I believe).  I 
> originally selected 15 seconds
> because it was needed by an  AEG SCSI neural net based OCR/ICR character 
> recognition engine
> we used to use with MACH.
> 
> I set it to 3 seconds on my systems..
> 

I won't argue that it orginated there, but it's also been quite 
convenient for tape drives, cdroms, and changers.  I usually modify
the timeout except for systems that have this.

Scott