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Spin down not working for second disk
Good morning,
I know this question has already been discussed a lot, but i really did not found a solution for my problem.
In my RN102, disk 1 spin down normally, but it seems to me the disk 2 never sleep.
The log state spin down enabled for both disk, but only disk 1 has spin down / up events.
I can clearly hear the noise (and notice the delay) of disk 1 that is spinning up,
but this never happen with disk 2, data are always available even after hours of no access.
I'm sure there is no access
This happened with firmware 6.4.1, and also with the latest 6.6.1
Appended here a bit of spindown log.
Any idea?
Regards, Luciano
Mar 11 18:40:28 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2651]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:WDC_WD10EARX-00N0YB0:WD-WCC0T0273070:51.0AB15:]
Mar 11 18:40:28 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2651]: Enabling spindown for disk 2 [sdb,0:1:ST2000DM001-1CH164:W1F0XZKG:CC43:7200]
Mar 11 19:37:17 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2651]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 11 19:37:29 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2651]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:10.
Mar 11 19:57:30 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2651]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 11 19:57:42 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2651]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:10.
Mar 11 20:17:43 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2651]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 12 01:53:08 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2651]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 5:35:22.
-- Reboot --
Mar 12 01:59:11 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2087]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:WDC_WD10EARX-00N0YB0:WD-WCC0T0273070:51.0AB51:]
Mar 12 01:59:11 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2087]: Enabling spindown for disk 2 [sdb,0:1:ST2000DM001-1CH164:W1F0XZKG:CC43:7200]
Mar 12 02:02:03 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2087]: Quitting on signal...
Mar 12 02:02:03 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[3370]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:WDC_WD10EARX-00N0YB0:WD-WCC0T0273070:51.0AB51:]
Mar 12 02:02:03 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[3370]: Enabling spindown for disk 2 [sdb,0:1:ST2000DM001-1CH164:W1F0XZKG:CC43:7200]
Mar 12 02:20:26 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[3370]: Quitting on signal...
-- Reboot --
Mar 12 11:20:54 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:WDC_WD10EARX-00N0YB0:WD-WCC0T0273070:51.0AB51:]
Mar 12 11:20:54 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Enabling spindown for disk 2 [sdb,0:1:ST2000DM001-1CH164:W1F0XZKG:CC43:7200]
Mar 12 11:30:31 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 12 11:35:35 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:05:01.
Mar 12 11:46:36 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 12 12:17:13 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:30:34.
Mar 12 12:22:13 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 12 13:13:13 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:50:57.
Mar 12 13:20:34 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[2093]: Quitting on signal...
Mar 12 13:20:34 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[4032]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:WDC_WD10EARX-00N0YB0:WD-WCC0T0273070:51.0AB51:]
Mar 12 13:20:34 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[4032]: Enabling spindown for disk 2 [sdb,0:1:ST2000DM001-1CH164:W1F0XZKG:CC43:7200]
Mar 12 13:25:39 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[4032]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 12 13:55:51 nas-E6-1B-75 noflushd[4032]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:30:09.
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Which services are you running?
Which apps do you have installed?
Apps.. no one
Services? i have installed nothing, the sistem is just out of the box.
At the beginning, i've updated to firmware 6.4.2, as asked at the first run, then, a few days ago, to release 6.6.1, the latest one to see if there has been improvements
I used for a couple of months the application ISTAT, but removed because not so usefull for me.. anyway the situation hasn't changed, disk 2 is not spinning down: you can see the situation in the log, where disk 2 is NEVER mentioned, (but enabled). I can also see the access time to the disk on the nas: after the setting timeout (already tried different vakues), disk 1 need an X time before be able to access to, the time the disk spin up,(and in the mean time you can herar the disk spining up), while disk 2 is ALWAYS immediately available...
Regards, Luciano
Still no solution for this problem, it's incredible.
Netgear used to be a champion, but now, really, problems with my nas, problems with my D7000..
things should not go this way.
Anyway, some other infos, might be useful for technics area:
Swapped the disks, sda to sdb and viceversa, reduced the spin down time to 5 minutes, and now the spin down seems to work, but not completely. What i can see from the log, and by the disk access time, is that after a while, variable time, the disk restart.... i'm absolutely sure that no one access the NAS, so there is no reason to spun up the drive, unless is the NAS itself writing something to the disks.
I really need this function, i do not want to shut down / power on the unit by needings, what i really need is something allowing me to save disks and energy while the sistem is not in use.
Regards,
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