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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