Re: sg timeout problem

[Alan Cox]

> But if sg is running on top of an actual SCSI driver, someone aborts the
> ioctl after 3 seconds.  The ioctl returns success even though the operation
> didn't complete.  I tried this with two Adaptec drivers and one NinjaSCSI 
> driver with 100% repro.
> 
> What am I missing?  I need the call to run to completion. 

If you set it to the max of a signed int does it behave, or to a large
value thats well under the limit. That will help tell if there is a
problem with sign handling in the scsi code somewhere or it is getting
multiplied up for some reason.
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