hi james, James Bottomley wrote: > A work around might be to lower the queue depth to say 4 or 8 and up the > retries (this latter can only be done by altering the SD_MAX_RETRIES > parameter in include/scsi/sd.h and recompiling). any suggestions for these parameters: include/scsi/sd.h: > #define SD_TIMEOUT (30 * HZ) > #define SD_MOD_TIMEOUT (75 * HZ) > > #define SD_MAX_RETRIES 5 > #define SD_PASSTHROUGH_RETRIES 1 shall i alter the timeouts? what is a good value for the retries? time it by 2? by 5? by 10? moreover, where can i lower the queue? cheers, raoul -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. r.bhatia@xxxxxxx Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. office@xxxxxxx 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html