This patch makes scsi commands to tape drives have no timeouts.
Previously the timeout was 1000 seconds, too short, and nothing good
happens when the timeout expires. Better to have no timeout.
diff -urN linux-2.5.43-a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c linux-2.5.43-b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
--- linux-2.5.43-a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c Fri Sep 27 16:49:15 2002
+++ linux-2.5.43-b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c Wed Oct 16 08:15:17 2002
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@
memset(cp->Request.CDB, 0, sizeof(cp->Request.CDB));
memcpy(cp->Request.CDB, cdb, cdblen);
- cp->Request.Timeout = 1000; // guarantee completion.
+ cp->Request.Timeout = 0;
cp->Request.CDBLen = cdblen;
cp->Request.Type.Type = TYPE_CMD;
cp->Request.Type.Attribute = ATTR_SIMPLE;
@@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@
// Fill in the request block...
- cp->Request.Timeout = 1000; // guarantee completion
+ cp->Request.Timeout = 0;
memset(cp->Request.CDB, 0, sizeof(cp->Request.CDB));
if (cmd->cmd_len > sizeof(cp->Request.CDB)) BUG();
cp->Request.CDBLen = cmd->cmd_len;