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

[Steve Baker]

Fred wrote:
> 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
>   
Thanks!  I'll give that a shot immediately.  I doubt it's to do with 
'heavy' disk activity though - it does it even if I'm not actively using 
the machine.  But still - any activity on a crappy USB  drive might be 
considered 'heavy'!

Many thanks.