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.

Ripping audio does need a somewhat larger timeout sometimes, it is
not strange that with a 2s timeout things would time out depending
on system load, SCSI bus state, device state and phase of the moon.

I fixed the package, so if you re-install the tosha pkg it should
be ok, and both your PRs can be closed.

A seperate matter is, if SCIOCCOMMAND ioctls that come from userspace
should trigger drivers into resetting devices or the whole bus. Shouldn't
it just pass back the timeout to the application, letting it deal
with it? I believe in our current SCSI layer that would be to
set XS_NOERROR. Well, anyway.

- Frank