timeout problem

Hello list,

I have an experimental mediapartition built like this:

-  a reiserfs partition on lvm
-  the lvm resides on 8 ide disks
-  the ide drives are kept in a spun down state using hdparm

When I access a file the required drives spin up. This can take a long time, since several drives might need to spin up in sequence, so what happens is I get an I/O error.

the next time I try to access the partition, the drives are spun up, so theres no problem.

I havent been able to find the relevant timout parameter.

The docs for LVM1 mentions a timout parameter on lvchange, but this seems gone in LVM2.

Also I'm not exactly shure if it even is a LVM2 partition. It was created a long time ago, and migrated to Fedora core 3 recently. It seems like the lvm2 tools are compatible with the lvm1 i format.

Sorry for the confusion, any hints deeply apreciated.

Joakim Verona
www.verona.se