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From: Florian Effenberger <florian@effenberger.org>
Subject: Re: libata interface fatal error
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:00:35 +0200
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Hi,

> iiuc, raid editions are designed to fail fast thus allowing an
> alternate drive to provide the data rather than having to wait thru
> multiple internal retries.
> 
> Could this just be a case of the drive functioning as designed? 

to be honest, I don't know. :-)

Any jumper settings to change that, or any driver settings? Are you 
aware of something like that?

Florian