Kit Gerrits wrote: ... > If, for some reason, a program wants to write to a file on there without > spinning the drive up in advance, the error pops up. > Mind you, I haven't had the error in days now. > > All I'm looking for is a way to increase the time the O/S waits for the disk > to spin up. Try the /sys/bus/scsi/devices/*:*:*:*/timeout attribute. Of course increasing the timeout isn't a particularly sophisticated method to solve the issue, but simple enough to try. The default timeout is 30 seconds: linux/drivers/scsi/sd.h::SD_TIMEOUT. Can an HDD really take longer than that to receive a request when spun down, spin up, execute the request, and return status? -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =-== -=-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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
