(none) was: Re: Ext. firewire disk disconnection and persistence of da* entry...

[Barry Bouwsma]

[sorry for the delay; I've been away and mostly offline.  Drop me from the
 list of recipients and I'll catch the archives Real Soon Now]


You wrote:

> > What I am looking for, is that the firewire drive is made available
> > as da0 at boot, ideally with support in kernel modules instead of the

> Did you chage SCSI_DELAY from the default 15sec?

Ah, very good observation.  Yes, I did, when a normal SCSI drive gave me
no problems with a much lower value.

Increasing the value to 8 seconds gave one time when a timeout was
recorded; otherwise, the drive was mostly detected fine.  I backed out
the change I thought I needed to make to get things to work.

Just as a note, there was a time when I got nothing but timeouts.  I
then rebuilt the kernel with SCSI_DELAY increasing up to and including
15 seconds, with no change.  Until I disconnected and reconnected the
drive; then it worked fine, even with a 5 second SCSI_DELAY, thereafter.

I'm back down to a 5 second SCSI_DELAY, without my hacks (I think), and
it works.  So, sorry about the false alarm, and this for the archives,
in case someone else seems to have problems, to double-check the value
of SCSI_DELAY.


Thanks for the pointer, sorry for the delay in this response, and
sorry for all the noise I created already.

Barry Bouwsma