smartmontools on FreeBSD 4.x - compile error + ahc card dump
Justin T. Gibbs
gibbs at scsiguy.com
Sat Sep 4 11:31:20 PDT 2004
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> As for the SCSI issues, that is something new. I added the passing in
> of a time out value because it was causing problems for others without
> that value...the commands would time out too soon.
0 == CAM_TIME_DEFAULT. The behavior will likely vary wildly depending
on the controller. It would be much better to specify a true timeout
value if you know an acceptable value for the timeout.
Timeouts are there to serve a watchdog purpose. A good timeout value
will never cause a false positive but is short enough that recovery
can occur in a reasonable amount of time. It seems that your current
timeout choices are causing false positives.
--
Justin
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