From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
Subject: Re: replacing drives
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:39:58 +0200
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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

what the... these are SECONDS! What on earth could delay a sata attached 
disk read for 30 (now 180) seconds if not a disk failure? I OS hang? 
Sorry about that question, but I don't understand.. I have never seen 
such a problem.

Robi