Re: [PATCH] Format Unit can take many hours

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, May 11 2004, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the timeout for FORMAT_UNIT should be much longer; I've seen 8hrs
> already (75Gig). I've increased the timeout from 2hrs to 12hrs.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de>                            Cologne, DE 
> SUSE LINUX AG, Nuernberg, DE                          SUSE Labs (Head)

> --- linux-2.6.5.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c	2004-04-04 05:38:20.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.5/drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c	2004-05-11 08:59:12.837421215 +0200
> @@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
>  #include "scsi_logging.h"
>  
>  #define NORMAL_RETRIES			5
> -#define IOCTL_NORMAL_TIMEOUT			(10 * HZ)
> -#define FORMAT_UNIT_TIMEOUT		(2 * 60 * 60 * HZ)
> +#define IOCTL_NORMAL_TIMEOUT		(10 * HZ)
> +#define FORMAT_UNIT_TIMEOUT		(12 * 60 * 60 * HZ)
>  #define START_STOP_TIMEOUT		(60 * HZ)
>  #define MOVE_MEDIUM_TIMEOUT		(5 * 60 * HZ)
>  #define READ_ELEMENT_STATUS_TIMEOUT	(5 * 60 * HZ)
> -#define READ_DEFECT_DATA_TIMEOUT	(60 * HZ )  /* ZIP-250 on parallel port takes as long! */
> +#define READ_DEFECT_DATA_TIMEOUT	(60 * HZ)  /* ZIP-250 on parallel port takes as long! */
>  
>  #define MAX_BUF PAGE_SIZE

block/scsi_ioctl.c should likely receive similar treatment then.

-- 
Jens Axboe