[PATCH] Format Unit can take many hours

[Kurt Garloff]

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,
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Kurt Garloff  <garloff@xxxxxxx>                            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

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