Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 04:41:32 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: linas@austin.ibm.com
Cc: lnz@dandelion.com, mike@i-connect.net, eric@andante.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olh@suse.de, groudier@free.fr,
       axboe@suse.de, acme@conectiva.com.br, linas@linas.org
Subject: Re: Patches for SCSI timeout bug
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> 2) By incresing the sym53c8xx post-reset delay to at least
>    12 seconds.
> 
> Fix 2) may not be bad: I have at least one scsi hard drive which 
> takes 5 seconds to recover from a bus reset.   On the other hand,
> fix 2) makes the boot process longer: it introduces a delay of 
> N x 12 seconds, where N is the number of scsi channels.
> (Most cards have two channels; some server-class machines with 
> many cards may have a significantly longer boot).

Yep, Ive got a box with 42 scsi controllers and the time to probe SCSI
is already unbearable :) 

So I like fix 1 as well.

Anton
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