On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 09:18:40PM -0500, James wrote: > > > On 2022-01-30 21:08, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 01:55:35PM -0500, James wrote: > > > > It's not easy to tell why the command timed out. Maybe the drive > > encountered a problem and therefore wasn't able to execute the command. > > Or maybe it did execute the command but the response message going back > > to the computer got lost. > Can I increase the timeout? I believe you can change the timeout value by writing to /sys/block/sda/queue/io_timeout (note: the value in that file is in milliseconds). > The error is always exactly the same. > Could there be a bad sector on the drive? Certainly. Alan Stern
