Assuming that the drives are good, you might be hitting the standby problem. So-called "green drives" park their heads and go into standby mode very quickly (a set of Western Digital Green series drives I have park after 8 seconds idle). It can take a long time (tens of seconds) for them to spin up again. This often is detected as a faulted device. So much fun for RAID sets.
hdparm -S 241 /dev/sdX sets the standby timer to 30 minutes. "-S 0" disables standby entirely, but some drives ignore this setting. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
