On 2017-07-11 22:35, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:18:03 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
For those who don't know, a desktop drive is "within spec" if it returns one soft read error per 10GB read. In other words, read a 6TB drive end-to-end twice, and the manufacturer says "if you get a read error, that's normal". But it will cause an array to fail if you haven't set it up properly ...
What would one do to set them up properly? :-?
You need to set up the timeouts in Linux to be longer than the ones imposed by the firmware on the drive. I'm sorry but I don't remember whether it's a kernel thing or a mdadm thing. I expect the linux raid wiki knows.
Wow :-( That can be minutes. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)