Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jose de la Mancha wrote: Hi everyone. I'm sorry but I'm not currently subscribed to this list (I've been sent here by the listmaster), so please CC me all your answers/comments. Thanks in advance. SHORT QUESTION : In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the timeout

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2008-01-02 Thread Bodo Eggert
Thanasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 12/31/2007 11:54 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following: >> --> All RAID edition drives are more expensive that their equivalent >> "desktop edition" drives (same model on "desktop edition"). Just take a look >> at newegg for instance. >>

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2008-01-02 Thread Bodo Eggert
Thanasis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/31/2007 11:54 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following: -- All RAID edition drives are more expensive that their equivalent desktop edition drives (same model on desktop edition). Just take a look at newegg for instance.

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jose de la Mancha wrote: Hi everyone. I'm sorry but I'm not currently subscribed to this list (I've been sent here by the listmaster), so please CC me all your answers/comments. Thanks in advance. SHORT QUESTION : In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the timeout

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-31 Thread Michael Tokarev
Jose de la Mancha wrote: [] > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Not sure about Debian, but perhaps /sys/block/md0/md/safe_mode_delay >> does something? > > --> I'll check that out. Does someone know about how this "safe mode delay" > works ? It's about something entirely different. This parameter tells

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-31 Thread Thanasis
on 12/31/2007 11:54 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following: > > --> All RAID edition drives are more expensive that their equivalent > "desktop edition" drives (same model on "desktop edition"). Just take a look > at newegg for instance. >

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-31 Thread Jose de la Mancha
Thanks guys for your answers (please remember to keep CCing me). Robert Hancock wrote: > This always seemed a strange use case to me. If the drive is getting > read errors, either it's dying and needs to be replaced, or it has a > sporadic bad sector as a result of a power failure during write,

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-31 Thread Jose de la Mancha
Thanks guys for your answers (please remember to keep CCing me). Robert Hancock wrote: This always seemed a strange use case to me. If the drive is getting read errors, either it's dying and needs to be replaced, or it has a sporadic bad sector as a result of a power failure during write, etc.

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-31 Thread Thanasis
on 12/31/2007 11:54 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following: -- All RAID edition drives are more expensive that their equivalent desktop edition drives (same model on desktop edition). Just take a look at newegg for instance.

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-31 Thread Michael Tokarev
Jose de la Mancha wrote: [] Jan Engelhardt wrote: Not sure about Debian, but perhaps /sys/block/md0/md/safe_mode_delay does something? -- I'll check that out. Does someone know about how this safe mode delay works ? It's about something entirely different. This parameter tells md after

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-30 Thread Thanasis
on 12/31/2007 12:42 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following: > > Of course there are "RAID edition" hard drives with a feature called TLER > (Time Limited Error Recovery) which stops the hard drive from entering into > a deep recovery cycle. The hard drive will only spend 7 seconds to attempt >

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 30 2007 23:42, Jose de la Mancha wrote: >SHORT QUESTION : >In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the >timeout before a non-responding drive is dropped from the array ? Can this >timeout become user-adjustable in a future build ? Not sure about Debian, but

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Jose de la Mancha wrote: Hi everyone. I'm sorry but I'm not currently subscribed to this list (I've been sent here by the listmaster), so please CC me all your answers/comments. Thanks in advance. SHORT QUESTION : In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the timeout

RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-30 Thread Jose de la Mancha
Hi everyone. I'm sorry but I'm not currently subscribed to this list (I've been sent here by the listmaster), so please CC me all your answers/comments. Thanks in advance. SHORT QUESTION : In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the timeout before a non-responding

RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-30 Thread Jose de la Mancha
Hi everyone. I'm sorry but I'm not currently subscribed to this list (I've been sent here by the listmaster), so please CC me all your answers/comments. Thanks in advance. SHORT QUESTION : In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the timeout before a non-responding

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Jose de la Mancha wrote: Hi everyone. I'm sorry but I'm not currently subscribed to this list (I've been sent here by the listmaster), so please CC me all your answers/comments. Thanks in advance. SHORT QUESTION : In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the timeout

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 30 2007 23:42, Jose de la Mancha wrote: SHORT QUESTION : In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the timeout before a non-responding drive is dropped from the array ? Can this timeout become user-adjustable in a future build ? Not sure about Debian, but

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

2007-12-30 Thread Thanasis
on 12/31/2007 12:42 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following: Of course there are RAID edition hard drives with a feature called TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) which stops the hard drive from entering into a deep recovery cycle. The hard drive will only spend 7 seconds to attempt to