From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: devices get kicked from RAID about once a month Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:37:58 +0100 Message-ID: <4C067AD6.7040700@anonymous.org.uk> References: <87k4qho723.fsf@uwo.ca> <628039470-1275491015-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-326486810-@bda837.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <876321o3lm.fsf@uwo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <876321o3lm.fsf@uwo.ca> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Christensen Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 02/06/2010 16:29, Dan Christensen wrote: [...] > Do the stats below support the theory that these are timeouts due to > media errors? Does anyone know if Samsung Spinpoint drives can be > tweaked to not try so hard to retrieve data? Or is it possible to make > the kernel more tolerant of such timeouts? My Samsung Spinpoint F1's can have TLER enabled using a more recent smartctl. It's not appeared as part of a formal release yet but a patch went in to r3065 in SVN: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/log/trunk/smartmontools Cheers, John.