[PLUG] CCTL/ERC/TLER Drive Timeouts

[Russell Johnson]

I've seen this behavior when a drive is set to power down when idle. There are OS, BIOS and drive controller (on the drive) settings for this. 


On Dec 20, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Michael Dexter <dexter at ambidexter.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Does anyone have any positive or negative CCTL/ERC/TLER drive timeout 
> experiences? Where a hard drive takes its time to respond to the OS or 
> hardware RAID card and the OS or RAID card declares it failed, even 
> though it is technically just fine? Anyone use a drive BIOS tool to 
> rectify this? Any drives to avoid in your experience? The ST3000DM001 is 
> coming to mind... :(
> 
> Michael
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Russell Johnson
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