I've HighPoint RocketRAID 2760A which uses mvsas driver. And I need to increase it's timeout because it timeouts too early and doesn't allow HDD to finish it's recovery routine for unreadable sector (that HDD doesn't support TLER) I've increased # echo 300 > /sys/block/sdd/device/timeout # echo 300 > /sys/block/sdd/device/eh_timeout But it didn't gave any effect, it still timeouts in ~8 seconds. # hdparm --read-sector 3021567960 /dev/sdd /dev/sdd: reading sector 3021567960: FAILED: Input/output error [17226.257531] /mnt/linux/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 1771:port 2 slot 0 rx_desc 30000 has error info0000000001000000. [17226.266698] sas: Enter sas_scsi_recover_host busy: 1 failed: 1 [17226.266707] sas: ata21: end_device-7:2: cmd error handler [17226.266740] sas: ata7: end_device-7:0: dev error handler [17226.266750] sas: ata8: end_device-7:1: dev error handler [17226.266760] sas: ata21: end_device-7:2: dev error handler [17226.266767] sas: ata10: end_device-7:3: dev error handler [17226.266772] ata21.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [17226.266778] ata21.00: failed command: READ SECTOR(S) EXT [17226.266781] sas: ata12: end_device-7:5: dev error handler [17226.266787] sas: ata11: end_device-7:4: dev error handler [17226.266793] sas: ata13: end_device-7:6: dev error handler [17226.266795] sas: ata14: end_device-7:7: dev error handler [17226.266813] ata21.00: cmd 24/00:01:d8:77:19/00:00:b4:00:00/e0 tag 21 pio 512 in res 51/40:00:d8:77:19/00:00:b4:00:00/00 Emask 0x9 (media error) [17226.266820] ata21.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [17226.266825] ata21.00: error: { UNC } [17226.330498] ata21.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x1) [17226.330506] ata21.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) [17226.330514] ata21: hard resetting link [17226.483739] ata21.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x1) [17226.483746] ata21.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) [17228.669337] hpet1: lost 331 rtc interrupts [17230.689985] hpet1: lost 129 rtc interrupts [17231.483422] ata21: hard resetting link [17231.637199] ata21.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x1) [17231.637207] ata21.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) [17231.637212] ata21.00: disabled [17231.637252] ata21: EH complete [17231.637275] sas: --- Exit sas_scsi_recover_host: busy: 0 failed: 0 tries: After this that disk isn't accessible at all until it's physically disconnected and reconnected. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html