<snip> > Also, it doesn't take a drive 40 seconds, > let alone 2 minutes, to mark a sector bad. Just for info, with Enterprise class sata drives, you're right. For consumer grade sata, they have extended auto retry logic as an effort not to fail a read from a bad sector. It can easily take times like your seeing. I think the standard drive timeout is on the order of 30 seconds and then libata sometimes has retry logic of its own. Especially with PATA drives a 2 minute issue is not out of the question, since the kernel will step down the i/o speed and retry each speed as it goes. And PATA (IDE) has a lot of speeds to try. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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
