[NTLUG:Discuss] Drive becoming read-only after 40 minutes?!?

[Fred]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
>
> booting SuSE 10.2 from a 300Gb 
> UDB drive.  It boots OK, runs just fine for ~40 minutes then quite 
> suddenly any access to the drive produces a message saying that I can't 
> write to the drive because it's read-only?!

Welcome to Suse 10.2. That is a known bug, has to do with heavy
disk activity. It was discussed at some length on the opensuse forum
opensuse at opensuse.org

The problem is a device timeout. Try their suggestion:

 add the line "echo 120 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout" to /etc/init.d/boot.local

Fred




       
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