Subject: Re: Time to delete ncr.c?
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 11/19/2000 16:46:14
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:42:05PM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:06:46PM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > I tried it again with -current from today.  (the problem with the card
> > was some kind of conflict with the adaptec scsi on the motherboard.
> > disabling the built-in scsi made the symbios card happier.)
> > now I can play audio, but I can't rip audio to disk with tosha.
> > tosha works fine with the ncr driver.  the symptoms are the same
> > as before.  on the console there is:
> 
> This was an error in the interaction between the tosha and libscsi
> packages. libscsi resets the timeout in its scsi_build() function,
> but tosha was setting the timeout before calling scsi_build(), and
> hence never got the intended 10s timeout, but always 2s.

Ok. This would explain why it works with ncr, it alwasys add 2 seconds to
the timeout value passed from the upper level.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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