Re: replacing drives

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On Tue Apr 30, 2013 at 04:11:55PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote:

> Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> > 
> >> How do I increase that timeout?
> > 
> > for x in /sys/block/sd[a-z] ; do echo 180  > $x/device/timeout ; done
> > 
> 
> You believe that this is not enough? What's the unit? milliseconds?
> # for x in /sys/block/sd[a-z] ; do cat $x/device/timeout ; done
> 30
> 30
> 30
> 30
> 
The units are seconds. According to WD[1], their drives can take up to 2
minutes to timeout, but other manufacturers may differ. 30 seconds is
definitely too short.

[1] http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1397/p/227,283/session/L3RpbWUvMTMyMTQzOTc4NS9zaWQvdVhvYmpmSms%3D

Cheers,
    Robin
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