Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757570AbXLaHeU (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:34:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753217AbXLaHeJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:34:09 -0500 Received: from adsl21-234.ath.forthnet.gr ([77.49.212.234]:49798 "EHLO vergina.dyndns.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752814AbXLaHeI (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:34:08 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 879 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:34:08 EST Message-ID: <477897FA.2060001@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:19:22 +0200 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071229) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jose de la Mancha CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 16 on 12/31/2007 12:42 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following: > > Of course there are "RAID edition" hard drives with a feature called TLER > (Time Limited Error Recovery) which stops the hard drive from entering into > a deep recovery cycle. The hard drive will only spend 7 seconds to attempt > to recover. This means that the hard drive will not be dropped from a RAID > array. But these "special" hard drives are way too expensive IMHO just for a > small firmware-based feature. WD 2500YS price same as an IDE or SATA -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/