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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
Apr 18, 2017Tutor
Hi Guys
Anyone got any update on this? Is it every gonna be properly fixed¬
LucianoBrentana
Aug 31, 2017Aspirant
Still no news?
it's incredible, all this time and lot of firmware updates, and the problem is not resolved.
This is a basilar function, not asking for the moon!
Please guys, fix it, thanks
- profeta64Sep 01, 2017Luminary
I have the RN214 with the OS 6.8.0 which has still the issue that wakes up after 1min that the disks have been spinned down.
- yuan_1202Sep 25, 2017Tutor
The problem seemed to go away in 6.62 or something like that.
But it is back in 6.7x and 6.8.
I gave up already. just disabled the spindown function as with this problem the spindown function is basically useless and age your hard drive much quicker.
netgear, I just want a NAS that works efficiently and reliably, without your stup*d featured app.
is it that hard ? ffs.
- Michael_OzSep 30, 2017Luminary
U/G'd to 6.8.1 today.
Sep 30 16:22:08 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 4 (/dev/sdd). Sep 30 16:22:15 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 4 (/dev/sdd) after 0:00:05. Sep 30 16:29:57 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Sep 30 16:29:59 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb). Sep 30 16:30:02 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 3 (/dev/sdc). Sep 30 16:30:04 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 5 (/dev/sde). Sep 30 16:30:06 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 6 (/dev/sdf). Sep 30 16:30:14 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:15. Sep 30 16:30:14 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:12. Sep 30 16:30:14 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 3 (/dev/sdc) after 0:00:10. Sep 30 16:30:14 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 5 (/dev/sde) after 0:00:08. Sep 30 16:30:14 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 6 (/dev/sdf) after 0:00:05. Sep 30 16:40:27 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda). Sep 30 16:40:29 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb). Sep 30 16:40:32 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 3 (/dev/sdc). Sep 30 16:40:39 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:10. Sep 30 16:40:39 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:07. Sep 30 16:40:39 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 3 (/dev/sdc) after 0:00:05. Sep 30 16:42:18 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 4 (/dev/sdd). Sep 30 16:42:20 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 5 (/dev/sde). Sep 30 16:42:22 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning down disk 6 (/dev/sdf). Sep 30 16:42:30 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 4 (/dev/sdd) after 0:00:10. Sep 30 16:42:30 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 5 (/dev/sde) after 0:00:08. Sep 30 16:42:30 ME-NAS-316A noflushd[3128]: Spinning up disk 6 (/dev/sdf) after 0:00:05.
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