I always think of man pages as something you read once everything is
installed and works.
I am not stupid, I do read man pages, I know what RTFM is, all this - and
yet, I did exactly the same thing that the man page describes below, only
I figured it out myself. Had this been in the README file, it'd save me
about 3 hours. ( The README doesn't say "go read scsi-sane(5) man page. )
There need to be better installation, and more importantly *testing*
instructions. ( E.g. run this command, then try to open the resulting file
with xv or something )
It seems that all the documentation is there, just in the least intuitive
place. It took me a while to figure out that there was in fact a sane-scsi
man page...
Am I the only one?
Forgive my rambling!
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Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
grisha@ispol.com
http://www.ispol.com/home/grisha
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On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> >>>>> On 22 Jul 97 17:07:50 +0200, kawk@Home.Yo.COM (Kolja Waschk) said:
>
> GT> The README does say this, but it doesn't give the slightest hint
> GT> as to *where* this "SCSI timeout" is changable. I didn't see
> GT> anything about SCSI timout in the kernel configuration, and the
> GT> line that I changed in the ncr53c8xx.c had the number "10"
> GT> hardcoded.
>
> Kolja> afaik, /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.c (look for TIMEOUT
> Kolja> defines)
>
> My sane-scsi(5) says:
>
> ncr810 For this card, make sure the SCSI timeout is
> reasonably big; the default timeout for the
> Linux 2.0 kernels is 10 seconds, which is
> way too low when scanning large area. If
> you get messages of the form "restart (ncr
> dead ?)" in your /var/log/messages file or
> on the system console, it's an indication
> that the timeout is too short. In this
> case, find the line "if (np->latetime>10)"
> in file ncr53c8xx.c (normally in directory
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi) and change the
> constant 10 to, say, 60 (one minute). Then
> rebuild the kernel/module and try again.
>
> The formatting is not ideal, but other than that, is the above not
> clear enough?
>
> --david
>
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