Re: Help with issue with mpt(4) driver

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:37:12PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> [...]
> You also need to be careful with command timeouts on certain devices.  
> While a one or two minute timeout should be plenty for a disk type device, 
> some operations on SCSI tape drives can take hours to complete.

Actually the timeout is passed from upper layers, it's not a value 
from the HBA driver itself. So each command should come in with a reasonable
timeout value ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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