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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Subject: Re: MD/RAID time out writing superblock
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:05:17 +0100
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Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> writes:

> Speaking of which..
> 
> Chris:  I wonder if the errors will also vanish in your situation
> by disabling the onboard write-caches in the drives ?
> 
> Eg.  hdparm -W0 /dev/sd?

Hi Mark. I've got a test machine on its way at the moment, so I'll make sure
I check this one out on it too.

Cheers,

Chris.