Subject: Re: dynamic configuration (was Re: PR#4094)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/28/2000 18:24:07
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:07:18AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > But in the case of booting a system where several SCSI busses are
> > detected, only one two-second delay should be needed. A little static
> > variable in scsibus_config_interrupts() should be able to handle that.
>
> In a properly designed system, no SCSI bus reset will be issued and there will
> be no need to wait N seconds settle time.
Ahem... how do you want to support devices that are old enough to not know
the reset command, or to do properly negotiate sync transfer rate?
-is