I've been asking on my other posts but haven't seen a direct reply to this question: Can MD implement timeouts so that it detects problems when drivers don't come back? For me this year shall be known as "the year the array stood still" (bad scifi reference :-) After 4 different array failures all due to a single drive failure I think it would really be helpful if the md code timed out the driver. Thanks, Alberto - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html