Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS fw SD17

From: Markus
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 06:16:57 EST


Robert Hancock wrote:
> Markus wrote:
> > Now I want to know after what period of the time the kernel timeouts
at
> > these commands!? And if this timeout can be increased (manually,
small
> > patch for the kernel) and the min/max/avg time could somehow be
> > messured. Every timeout kicks the drives off the raid, so I disabled
> > the write cache (hdparm -W0 /dev/sdx) but thats no solution, just a
bad
> > workaround.
>
> I believe the timeout for commands like these is usually 30 seconds.
> Normally if it doesn't respond after that length of time, it never
will.
> Even if it eventually did, I don't think you'd be happy with disk
access
> delays of over 30 seconds..

Ok thats definitly bad. Will reask at the support...

Markus
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