Annoying SCSI waiting...

[Julian Elischer]

Scott Long wrote:

>
> For just about everyone, a value of 2 seconds or less is just fine.
> For those with tape drives, changers, and (less likely) cdroms, a
> long delay after reset is still quite necessary.  There are two knobs
> to adjust this, and I'd like GENERIC to remain compatible.  It's 15
> seconds, not 2 minutes.  You get a longer delay that that just trying
> to set up the inital page tables on a large memory machine! 


for some reason the actual wait time always seems t be twice the
nominated one for me..
i.e. 15 seconds really seems ot take 30 seconds etc.