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In article <8608@cbmvax.UUCP> steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
>In article <1410034@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
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>                        However, SCSI drivers have to check 7 distinct
>SCSI bus addresses to see if drives are hooked up (there is a way under
>the new RDB scheme to shortcut this check, but that`s not important here).
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>	Steve

So could Steve or someone else tell us the order that C= controllers use
in querying the SCSI bus?  Theoretically, you could set the naughty device
toward the end of the chain so that several device numbers must time out
before getting to the valid device, giving it time to pay attention...

I.e.  If the order is 0 - 7, and there is a 4 second timeout per device and
a Seagate takes up to 12 seconds to pay attention to the bus after a reset,
then the drive should be set to at least 3, giving the drive time to wait
for the controller to timeout on 0, 1 and 2.

Is this a valid workaround?

-ethan



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