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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
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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

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