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Sylphide444
Aspirant
Mar 06, 2017
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Stop spin-down

Hello,

 

I have disabled disk spinning in frontview but it seems that it is not really disabled...

 

spindown.log :

Mar 05 16:12:12 nas noflushd[9030]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:ST1000DM003-1ER162:W4Y0F8G0:CC43:7200]
Mar 05 16:12:12 nas noflushd[9030]: Enabling spindown for disk 2 [sdb,0:1:Hitachi_HDS721010CLA332:JP9911J817N01H:JP4OA3MA:7200]
Mar 05 16:18:37 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 16:18:46 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 16:22:16 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 05 16:22:25 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 16:23:55 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 16:24:05 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:07.
Mar 05 16:27:25 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 05 16:27:34 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 16:29:05 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 16:29:14 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 16:32:34 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 05 16:32:43 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 16:34:14 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 16:34:24 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:07.
Mar 05 16:38:04 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 05 16:38:13 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 16:39:33 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 16:39:42 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 16:43:13 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 05 16:43:22 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 16:44:42 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 16:44:52 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:07.
Mar 05 16:49:52 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 16:50:02 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:07.
Mar 05 16:58:13 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 05 16:58:18 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 16:58:27 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:09.
Mar 05 16:58:28 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:08.
Mar 05 17:04:30 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 17:04:40 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 17:07:00 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Mar 05 17:07:09 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:06.
Mar 05 17:09:49 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning down disk 2 (/dev/sdb).
Mar 05 17:09:59 nas noflushd[9030]: Spinning up disk 2 (/dev/sdb) after 0:00:07.
Mar 05 17:10:16 nas noflushd[9030]: Quitting on signal...

 

And it keeps loading.

 

Can you please help me stop it?

  • Hello,

     

    I am using last version : 6.6.1

     

    Before troubleshooting many hours, I have just decided to make another default reset, and will never check that box again. Spin-down never worked for me anyway.

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  • FramerV's avatar
    FramerV
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hi Sylphide444,

     

    What firmware are you using?

     

     

    Regards,

     

     

    • jak0lantash's avatar
      jak0lantash
      Mentor

      I've used that in the past, but I'm entirely sure it's a clean solution: systemctl disable noflushd

      Maybe someone will confirm.

      • Sylphide444's avatar
        Sylphide444
        Aspirant

        Hello,

         

        I am using last version : 6.6.1

         

        Before troubleshooting many hours, I have just decided to make another default reset, and will never check that box again. Spin-down never worked for me anyway.

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