From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Majed B." Subject: Re: mdadm and TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:39:21 +0300 Message-ID: <70ed7c3e0909100239h208a6f9dlc8343774416e6f1a@mail.gmail.com> References: <299cc2790909071735x6eefd8bsc05ad76fa782cae1@mail.gmail.com> <20090908184837.GA28217@teal.hq.k1024.org> <4AA70604.7020709@harddata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Jackson Cc: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids sdparm is similar to hdparm but meant to deal with SCSI devices (including SATA). Your repository should have it, or download & compile. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Simon Jackson w= rote: > Hmmm. =C2=A0I do not have sdparm on my system. > > Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 17:57:00 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/L= inux > > Is this the same functionality as the hdparm utility? > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.= kernel.org] On Behalf Of Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe > Sent: 09 September 2009 12:05 > To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: mdadm and TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) > > Simon Jackson wrote: >> In my case I am using Seagate and Hitachi drives. >> Please can anyone tell me how I would go about setting timeout value= s on these types of drive. Are there utility programs to do this or a L= inux > > Well, my Seagates have a RTL (Recovery time limit (ms)) field in the = rw > (Read write error recovery) mode page. > > You could try something like `sdparm -W RTL=3D7000 /dev/sdX' to set i= t to > 7 seconds. I don't know if it works, I didn't test it, use it at your > own risk! Do a backup before, it could blow up your disk or even the > universe :) Tell us if it worked :) > > > regards > =C2=A0 Mario > -- > () Ascii Ribbon Campaign > /\ Support plain text e-mail > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =C2=A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht= ml > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =C2=A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht= ml > --=20 Majed B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html