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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI-2 Bus Hangs Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:04:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4d6lu9$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4bju5p$ihj@wilma.widomaker.com> <1995Dec26.123518.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> <4brb07$b4q@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4d0egd$hft@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) writes: > On my PC (then running OS/2 and Linux) I would get lots of > filesystem errors when using the drive. Would FreeBSD have the same > attitude towards partially failing drives as SunOS? (Try, retry and > retry again until you succeed or some really long period has > elapsed.) No, not that long period of time. It times out the request after 10 seconds (for a regular disk access - the timeout depends on the actual command), the recovery strategy is (unfortunately) adapter-dependant. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)