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SubjectRe: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS fw SD17
Markus wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have some Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB drives. They
> use the firmware SD17.
> They time out at the flush write cache and sometimes on the identify
> command.
> I know that sounds suspicious so I wrote to seagate but they told me my
> drives are ok. (Although I dont think so.)
>
> This drive+fw is blacklisted in the kernel, but there is no firmware
> upgrade for these drives. (Only very few serial numbers are able to
> upgrade.)
>
> Now I want to know after what period of the time the kernel timeouts at
> these commands!? And if this timeout can be increased (manually, small
> patch for the kernel) and the min/max/avg time could somehow be
> messured. Every timeout kicks the drives off the raid, so I disabled
> the write cache (hdparm -W0 /dev/sdx) but thats no solution, just a bad
> workaround.

I believe the timeout for commands like these is usually 30 seconds.
Normally if it doesn't respond after that length of time, it never will.
Even if it eventually did, I don't think you'd be happy with disk access
delays of over 30 seconds..

>
> Its a amd64 system with the 2.6.29.4 on an AM3 board with AMDs 790GX +
> SB750 Chipsets running in ahci mode.
>
> Thanks for your time and support!
>
> Markus
>
> PS: Please CC me!



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