disk spindown problem with Ultra6

[simonhang]

Hi,

I have a Ultra6 with 6.2.2 OS. Disk spindown is enabled. It works, except I have to disable crontab, else it will spinup disk every hour.

Also, samba is spinup disks. Any solution to this?


Another thing bothering me now is every time I try to ssh or access one share on my ultra6, it spinup all disk I have there.

My currently disk config:
disk 1: standlone
disk 2,3: mirror
disk 4,5,6 raid-5

Whatever disk I access, or even a simple ssh login, all 6 disk will be spinup. Anyway to stop this?

Thanks,
Simon

[RX]

I don't have an Ultra6 with FW v6.2.2. However, have you tried doing an OS reinstall? http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... 9kbQ%3D%3D

You might want to consider using the Beta FW v6.2.3. It says there "Fix potential system hang on 4-bay units with disk spindown enabled" -- It might help even if your NAS is a 6-bay unit. Here is the link: viewtopic.php?t=78866

[mdgm-ntgr]

When the disks need to be read (a read request is made and the data is not stored in the memory cache) the disks will spin up. The OS is on all the disks so yes the disks will typically spin up and down around the same time as each other.