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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Implementing low level timeouts within MD
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:59:16 +1300
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Alberto Alonso wrote:

> After 4 different array failures all due to a single drive
> failure I think it would really be helpful if the md code
> timed out the driver.

Hi Alberto,

Sorry you've been having so much trouble.

For interest, can you tell us what drives and controllers are involved?

I've been running md for 8 years and over that time have had probably 
half a dozen drives failed out of arrays without any problems.

Regards,

Richard