Re: SCSI TIMEOUTS - EUREKA!

Christoph Lameter (clameter@miriam.fuller.edu)
23 Mar 1996 21:05:06 -0800


Les Johnson (les@ulysses.homer.att.com) wrote:
: Leonard,

: > The following patch is untested (since I've not been able to reproduce
: > this particular lossage myself), but is simple enough I'm fairly
: > certain of it. What I can't be sure of is that it actually addresses
: > the timeout problems people are seeing, since it's always possible
: > this isn't the only bug. Please try this out and report back publicly
: > on whether it helps or not.

: Yup, it did fix the SCSI timeout problem that I was having on a
: 1.3.7[5-7] Pentium system with an Adaptec 2940 controller and 9 gig
: Micropolis drive. Thanks!

This cannot be the solution. I have PPP performance problems and others
have SLIP etc etc problems on systems WITHOUT SCSI!

Thereust be another reason for the Interrupt Latency problem.