Re: modutils-970118 problem

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:34:01 +0100 (MET)

> > I'm not sure how far along the chain you have to go in the scsi subsystem
> > before the bits trip to say that the module is in use, but at this point
> > I can only presume it wasn't far enough.
>
> Cool idea. Maybe we could have an option in the config file which could
> specify a different wait time for different modules so people with slow
> devices could set the timeout on those modules to 2 minutes, for instance.

and increase the timeout for some other modules !

once I had a machine with a dedicated SCSI controller (aha152x) for an external
SCSI tape drive. thus the aha152x driver got unloaded whenever you left
the tape idle a little while and the re-loading caused a SCSI bus reset
which rewound the tape :-(
this is *very* nasty if you're trying to read/write multiple archives etc...

the only chance right now is to increase timeout for all modules (used 2h)
or to load those modules myself...

Harald

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