> Small correction. They've yanked settable SCT ERC in at least the Blue > and Black laptop (Scorpio) drives, which used to have this feature. So > it's not just the greens that had the feature removed. I'm pretty sure > all of the desktop drives, green, blue, black, have had it removed in > newer revisions. Now you can get it in reds, or RE drives only, at > least WDC. Otherwise you're looking for a different vendor. This is true. The only real difference between the blacks and the 'enterprise' drives, is that the firmware isn't crippled. Seagate and (hopefully still) Hitachi drives allow setting SCT ERC. This is from my /etc/rc.local for i in b c d e f g h do dev=sd$i smartctl -l scterc,70,70 /dev/$dev || echo 180 > /sys/block/$dev/device/timeout done Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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