Hi Phil, On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:27:45 -0500, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Philip, ... > > Well, given that something appears to be blocking in a fairly > > disastrous way on the read that's not coming back, I was wondering if > > there might be some way of having a timeout on those reads that if one > > gets no response for long enough (say 10 seconds) reacts by getting the > > data from elsewhere, and overwriting the slow sector. > > Have you set up TLER or SCTERC on these drives? The WD Caviar Black model doesn't appear to support that, judging by the: Warning: device does not support SCT Error Recovery Control command in the smartctl output. As for TLER, threads like this: http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/602903.aspx suggest that there used to be a DOS utility for doing it, but that WD have since disabled the ability to set that -- and TBH the chances of me scheduling down time, and working out how to boot DOS on a system with no floppy, which is in a co-lo centre where I generally am not, are slim to say the least -- I'd be more likely to simply replace the disks if that's the only solution, since I'm not impressed with them so far. > I suspect you haven't, as these long delays on read errors are typical > of default error handling on consumer drives. That's my understanding too. Unfortunately, this enlightenment only came to me after I'd already bought the el-cheapo drives, rather than the overly expensive RAID-ready model. You may say that I deserve what I'm getting, but I'm rather used to Linux being able to get the best out of cheap hardware, and was hoping that this would be another example where that could be made to be the case. > Can you show the complete "smartctl -x" output for this failing drive? http://hands.com/~phil/tmp/sheikh.hands.com-smartctl-e-sde--20111224 Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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