Re: Patches for SCSI timeout bug

[Anton Blanchard]

> 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