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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DAT Hell
Date: 27 Jun 1996 19:46:41 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> wrote:

> Yes, but what I am saying is ``isn't there a better way than
> tweaking the code?''  You didn't comment o the system variable
> approach.

The problem is that there are far too many different timeout values
for the different SCSI commands.  Perhaps one might classify them and
see which ones must be adjustable, but still then, you have to assign
them on a per-device basis (not per-driver), since e.g. a Sony DAT
will require far more time to rewind than the good ol' Archive Viper
you happen to have in the same machine (using the same `st' driver).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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