• Disks Spinning Up (For no reason).

    XtremeOwnage

    By XtremeOwnage

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    This likely is not related to 6.12, however, I have an issue where my disks are being spun up around every hour for no reason.

    Hardware: Dell R730XD. HBA 330 mini.

      

    May 18 14:42:49 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 18 14:57:38 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 18 16:07:46 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 18 16:22:36 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 18 17:32:46 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 18 17:47:36 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 18 18:57:41 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 18 19:12:31 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 18 20:22:36 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 18 20:37:26 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 18 21:47:32 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 18 22:02:22 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 18 23:12:26 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 18 23:27:15 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 00:37:20 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 00:52:10 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 02:02:12 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 02:17:02 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 03:27:05 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 03:41:55 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 04:52:01 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 05:06:50 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 06:16:55 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 06:31:44 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 07:41:48 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 07:56:37 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk



    I use /dev/sdk in this example, for the simple reason- it has no file system. It is literally just an empty drive which happens to be inserted into unraid. 

     

    1. This drive has NO data.
    2. This drive has NO filesystem.
    3. It has no mounts.
    4. There are no docker containers with access to this device. Everything is isolated to /mnt/user or /mnt/cache shares.
    5. There are no VMs running.

     

    But, it spins up pretty consistently, every 50 minutes after it last spun down.

    I have....

    1. Updated the firmware / bios for my HBA, BIOS, etc. No Change.

    2. Removed most of the plugins I thought could be contributing to this. So, Folder Caching, etc.

    3. Trim schedule is only once a week. Mover schedule wouldn't apply to this disk.

    There is, nothing in syslog to assist, other than viewing the timing of the other drives randomly spinning up as well.

      

    May 19 04:50:08 Tower rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.2102.0" x-pid="1287" x-info="https://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed
May 19 04:52:01 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 05:04:10 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdm
May 19 05:04:21 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdn
May 19 05:06:50 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 05:18:59 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdm
May 19 05:19:12 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdn
May 19 05:40:29 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sde
May 19 05:55:19 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sde
May 19 06:00:01 Tower root: mover: started
May 19 06:00:01 Tower root: mover: finished
May 19 06:16:55 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 06:29:02 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdm
May 19 06:29:14 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdn
May 19 06:31:44 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 06:43:52 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdm
May 19 06:44:06 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdn
May 19 07:20:11 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sde
May 19 07:41:48 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 07:53:57 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdm
May 19 07:54:09 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdn
May 19 07:56:37 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 08:00:01 Tower root: mover: started
May 19 08:00:01 Tower root: mover: finished
May 19 08:08:47 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdm
May 19 08:08:59 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdn
May 19 08:30:17 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sde
May 19 08:45:08 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sde

     

     

    For lsblk- note- no partitions. 

     

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    I would have uploaded the diagnostics.zip, but, it appears to have crashed after running sed -i against the nextcloud's trashbin directory......



    BUT, I did run  

    [email protected]:~# lsof -r 1 /dev/sdk | tee sdkaccess

     

    for a few hours


    And, came up with this.

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    So, the only process accessing that disk, is hdparm. 

    Disk's settings:

     

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    Unraid Disk Settings:

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    samsausages

    is this on your ZFS formatted disks and are you using ZFS Master?
    And do you have an LSI 9300 HBA?
     

     

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    XtremeOwnage

    I do have ZFS Master installed, but, just to give snapshot functionality to the dashboard. The zpools I do have, were created using unraid 6.12 rc5.

    This particular disk, per the original post, has NOTHING on it. Not even a file system. 

    Despite having 12-18 disks in my chassis, all having issues spinning up every hour, I am opening the ticket specifically for this drive, because it is not in use AT ALL.

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    XtremeOwnage

    After uninstalling the ZFS Master plugin last night- 

    I am checking the logs for the unused, completely empty disk-

      

    May 19 12:29:48 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 12:44:49 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 14:07:49 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 14:22:39 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 15:32:43 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 15:47:33 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 16:57:40 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 17:12:28 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 18:22:33 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 18:37:22 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 19:47:29 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 20:02:17 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 21:12:23 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 21:27:12 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 19 22:37:19 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 19 22:52:08 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 00:02:16 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 00:17:04 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 01:27:11 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 01:41:59 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 02:52:02 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 03:06:52 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 04:16:55 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 04:31:44 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 05:41:49 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 05:56:38 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 07:06:43 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 07:21:33 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 08:31:36 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 08:46:25 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 09:56:28 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 10:11:18 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 11:21:23 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 11:36:13 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk
May 20 12:46:18 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdk
May 20 13:01:08 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdk



    Regarding the note about the LSI 9300 HBA, what is the suspected idea? 

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    Vr2Io

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    Posted (edited)

    I haven't problem on SAS3008 chips or microsemi hba. ( 6.11.5 )

     

    May be try disable storage OptROM or interrupt 19 capture at BIOS. At least I always disable those and haven't random spinup issue.

     

    To eliminate OS/plugin relate, I recommend use another USB to install fresh Unraid, just keep array stop and click spin down then check any disk will spinup self.

    Edited by Vr2Io
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    XtremeOwnage

    So- here is something interesting.

     

    image.thumb.png.abd4d88c7c1d3beb1020af752dc342af.png

     

     

    Nothing has changed. But, after noon on May 21st- all of the disks stopped randomly spinning up. (and, is now working as expected?)

    Going to continue to monitor this, to see if I can figure out exactly... what exactly happened..... 

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