On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: > > /d sets it (for me) to 6300 milliseconds (6.3 seconds). I took this > > as a special value that disabled it entirely (no idea why they > > didn't use 0 or 255..) > > > > I've seen reports of the same on various hardware forums. Not sure > > if it's > > due to different firmware, or different drive models. > > You should still be able to list the timeout value explicitly > (instead of using /d). According to the help output, you can use > either 25.5 seconds or 3000-something seconds as the max value > (depends on the drive).
Yes I know, I used /d and haven't had any issues since. As the original timeout was 8 seconds I am pretty confident it treats 63 as special otherwise the problem would still be happening for me. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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