Alberto Alonso wrote:

After 4 different array failures all due to a single drive
failure I think it would really be helpful if the md code
timed out the driver.

Hi Alberto,

Sorry you've been having so much trouble.

For interest, can you tell us what drives and controllers are involved?

I've been running md for 8 years and over that time have had probably 
half a dozen drives failed out of arrays without any problems.

Regards,

Richard