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hawke84
Oct 09, 2016Tutor
Readynas OS 6.6 drives wont spindown
Hi, I recently upgraded to OS6.6 on my RN104, never had a problem with disk spindown before but soon as I have upgraded the disks dont really spindown anymore, they spindown for about 10 seconds then...
yuan_1202
Nov 02, 2016Tutor
-- Logs begin at Wed 2016-11-02 07:05:33 WET, end at Wed 2016-11-02 18:27:42 WET. -- Nov 02 07:00:29 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:TOSHIBA_HDWE140:Z5M8KE82F58D:FP2A:7200] Nov 02 07:36:18 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Error: Readahead /etc/resolv.conf failed. Nov 02 07:36:18 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 07:36:26 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05. Nov 02 07:51:27 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 07:51:35 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05. Nov 02 08:06:36 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 08:06:44 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05. Nov 02 08:21:45 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 08:21:52 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05. Nov 02 08:36:53 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 08:37:01 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05. Nov 02 08:52:02 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 08:52:09 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05. Nov 02 09:00:19 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1831]: Quitting on signal... -- Reboot -- Nov 02 17:00:29 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:TOSHIBA_HDWE140:Z5M8KE82F58D:FP2A:7200] Nov 02 17:36:38 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Error: Readahead /etc/resolv.conf failed. Nov 02 17:36:38 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 17:36:46 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05. Nov 02 17:51:48 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 17:51:55 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05. Nov 02 18:06:57 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 18:07:10 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:10. Nov 02 18:22:12 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Nov 02 18:22:20 YUAN-NAS noflushd[1843]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:05.
nop not fixed at all using dacwe's method. it seemed to performing spin down for a few of hours for a few times after i implemented the fix. but when i check the log today heres what i got. have to stop the spindown function now i dont think this will do hard drive any good.
seriously netgear, fix this sh*t.
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