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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!EU.net!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl!fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl!not-for-mail From: geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI-2 Bus Hangs Date: 14 Jan 1996 03:14:36 +0100 Organization: La Calandre Infortunee Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4d9ouc$mi7@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> References: <4bju5p$ihj@wilma.widomaker.com> <1995Dec26.123518.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> <4brb07$b4q@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4d0egd$hft@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> <4d6lu9$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : 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. Wouldn't it be better to treat all adapters the same way? Of course the adapter-driver should be responsible for 'getting the message out', but everything beyond that is scsi-adapter independent. It would be logical for the recovery-strategy to be placed outside the adapter-driver. This makes the drivers simpler and prevents a duplication of the effort for good error-handling. Also inconsistencies in error-handling would be less. Now I know this wouldn't help for IDE drives, but I don't think anybody using IDE is really interested in error-handling and -recovery. ;-) Greetings, Geert -- E-Mail: geert@sun3.iaf.nl Phone: +31-53-4303054