RE: Patches for SCSI timeout bug

[Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky]

> From: Anton Blanchard [mailto:[e-mail]]
> 
> > 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 :)

Woah, can I see a copy of your electricity bill? That must suck
amps...

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own
(and my fault)