Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756836AbZIRRFU (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:05:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756429AbZIRRFU (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:05:20 -0400 Received: from alpha.arachsys.com ([91.203.57.7]:53980 "EHLO alpha.arachsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753505AbZIRRFS (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:05:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:05:17 +0100 From: Chris Webb To: Mark Lord Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Ric Wheeler , Andrei Tanas , NeilBrown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , Jeff Garzik , Mark Lord Subject: Re: MD/RAID time out writing superblock Message-ID: <20090918170517.GI2141@arachsys.com> References: <4AADF3C4.5060004@kernel.org> <4AADF471.2020801@suse.de> <4AAE3B9A.2060306@rtr.ca> <4AAE3F86.8090804@suse.de> <4AAE524C.2030401@rtr.ca> <20090916231921.GL1924@arachsys.com> <4AB239C8.2020203@rtr.ca> <4AB25736.1060601@suse.de> <4AB260CA.8040308@rtr.ca> <4AB2610F.8010904@rtr.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB2610F.8010904@rtr.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 584 Lines: 20 Mark Lord writes: > Speaking of which.. > > Chris: I wonder if the errors will also vanish in your situation > by disabling the onboard write-caches in the drives ? > > Eg. hdparm -W0 /dev/sd? Hi Mark. I've got a test machine on its way at the moment, so I'll make sure I check this one out on it too. Cheers, Chris. -- 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/