• [6.8.3] USB HDDs randomly spin up, but status stays unchanged


    mgutt
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    I manually spun down all my disks. After some minutes the power consumption raised, so I executed "mdcmd spindown" through the terminal. As disk3 and disk6 reacted slowly to the command and the power consumption dropped after that, I could be sure that they were spinning, although the icon was grey:

     

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    I really like to help to find the problem, but I do not know what to search for. As it can't be a disk access thing, it must be something related to the USB device power management I think.

     

    P.S. I don't know if they stay spinning all the time or spin down after several minutes again. I will observe that.




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    At the moment I try to observe this. This are the things I found out:

     

    Status

     

    USB = sdb = disk3

    SATA = sdg = disk7

     

    USB

    smartctl --nocheck standby -i /dev/sdb
    
    smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-4.19.107-Unraid] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
    
    CHECK POWER MODE: incomplete response, ATA output registers missing
    CHECK POWER MODE not implemented, ignoring -n option
    === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
    Model Family:     HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 (He12)
    Device Model:     HGST HUH721212ALE604
    Serial Number:    8CHUDHEE
    LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 26fd9a3b2
    Firmware Version: LEGNW3D0
    User Capacity:    12,000,138,625,024 bytes [12.0 TB]
    Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
    Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
    Form Factor:      3.5 inches
    Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
    ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
    SATA Version is:  SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
    Local Time is:    Fri Oct 16 21:32:04 2020 CEST
    SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
    SMART support is: Enabled

    SATA

    smartctl --nocheck standby -i /dev/sdg
    smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-4.19.107-Unraid] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
    
    Device is in STANDBY mode, exit(2)

     

    USB

    hdparm -C /dev/sdb
    
    /dev/sdb:
    SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 01 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 1d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
     drive state is:  unknown

    SATA

    hdparm -C /dev/sdg
    
    /dev/sdg:
     drive state is:  standby

    Both commands do not wake up the disks.

    Monitoring

    - If the USB disks randomly spin up, they spin up both. Its never only one of it.

    - inotifywait does not return any file access

     

    Does Unraid periodically execute a command which checks the HDD status or similar?

     

    Next step is this command to log all processes:

    top -b -c -d 5 > /mnt/cache/top.log

    Sadly "lastcomm" is not available because of "accton: Function not implemented" which should mean the Linux Kernel of Unraid has not enabled accounting.

    Edited by mgutt
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    Ok, catched it:

    top - 22:56:25 up 22:11,  2 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
    Tasks: 257 total,   1 running, 250 sleeping,   0 stopped,   6 zombie
    %Cpu(s):  0.6 us,  0.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 89.4 id,  9.7 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
    MiB Mem :  64358.4 total,  20504.6 free,   9912.9 used,  33940.9 buff/cache
    MiB Swap:      0.0 total,      0.0 free,      0.0 used.  53088.3 avail Mem 
    
      PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
     4683 root      20   0  283604   4132   3416 S   0.2   0.0   3:24.90 /usr/local/sbin/emhttpd
     5256 root      20   0  149776   8300   3752 S   0.2   0.0   0:18.49 nginx: worker process
    17144 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   0.2   0.0   0:01.73 [kworker/3:3-events_freezable]
    25275 root      20   0    7464   4676   3620 D   0.2   0.0   0:00.01 /usr/sbin/smartctl -n standby -A /dev/sdb
    25276 root      20   0       0      0      0 Z   0.2   0.0   0:00.01 [smartctl] <defunct>
    25278 root      20   0    7464   4580   3524 D   0.2   0.0   0:00.01 /usr/sbin/smartctl -n standby -A /dev/sda
    25279 root      20   0       0      0      0 Z   0.2   0.0   0:00.01 [smartctl] <defunct>
        1 root      20   0    2468   1684   1576 S   0.0   0.0   0:10.52 init
    

     

    Let's verify it.

     

    Spin down USB... takes long time, so it's spinning down

    mdcmd spindown 6

    Check status of SATA... no delay

    /usr/sbin/smartctl -n standby -A /dev/sdg
    smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-4.19.107-Unraid] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
    
    Device is in STANDBY mode, exit(2)

    Check status of USB... takes very long time, so it's spinning up

    /usr/sbin/smartctl -n standby -A /dev/sda
    smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-4.19.107-Unraid] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
    
    CHECK POWER MODE: incomplete response, ATA output registers missing
    CHECK POWER MODE not implemented, ignoring -n option
    === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
    SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
    Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
    ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
      1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   016    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
      2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   132   132   054    Pre-fail  Offline      -       96
      3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   163   163   024    Pre-fail  Always       -       416 (Average 389)
      4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       401
      5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
      7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
      8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   128   128   020    Pre-fail  Offline      -       18
      9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4336
     10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
     12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       59
     22 Helium_Level            0x0023   100   100   025    Pre-fail  Always       -       100
    192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1683
    193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1683
    194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   187   187   000    Old_age   Always       -       32 (Min/Max 25/55)
    196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
    197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
    198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
    199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

     

    Bug Fix

    "smartctl" ignores "-n standby" as the USB device does not support power checks:

    CHECK POWER MODE: incomplete response, ATA output registers missing
    CHECK POWER MODE not implemented, ignoring -n option

    The same message is displayed if the "-i" option is used, but this does not spin up the drive, so I suggest to use this command, before executing "-A" (to obtain the temps/errors etc):

    /usr/sbin/smartctl --nocheck standby -i /dev/sdb

    Sadly this won't solve the active / inactive icon, temps, etc as Unraid seems to rely on the correct answer of the "-A" option.

     

    I was not able to find out if the disk is active or not. I tried to obtain the usb power:

    lsusb -v|egrep "^Bus|MaxPower"

    But it returns all the time "896mA", sleeping or not. Even fully disabling the USB port is not possible anymore, as "suspend" has been removed from recent Kernels:

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/166601/101920

     

     

    Edited by mgutt
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    Dirty hack

     

    Add this to the Go file:

    # -------------------------------------------------
    # USB HDD sleep bug fix
    # https://forums.unraid.net/bug-reports/stable-releases/683-usb-hdds-randomly-spin-up-but-status-stays-unchanged-r1091/?tab=comments#comment-11087
    # -------------------------------------------------
    sed -i -- 's/by %s -A/by %s -i/g' /usr/local/sbin/emhttpd

    Before that (which loads emhttpd):

     

    # -------------------------------------------------
    # Start the Management Utility
    # -------------------------------------------------
    /usr/local/sbin/emhttp &

     

    Note:

    • This will suppress displaying the temps!
    • And sadly it does not solve the icon issue. I think the active / inactive status is extracted from the "CHECK POWER MODE" status.
    • In very rare cases the USB disks still wake up. I need to investigate this further, but I think the USB adapter itself is the problem
    Edited by mgutt
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    I bought two new USB3 adapters from different brands through Amazon. Both use the same "ASM1051E" controller from ASMedia, but the second does not display the correct "iSerial":

    Bus 002 Device 003: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge
    Device Descriptor:
      bLength                18
      bDescriptorType         1
      bcdUSB               3.00
      bDeviceClass            0 
      bDeviceSubClass         0 
      bDeviceProtocol         0 
      bMaxPacketSize0         9
      idVendor           0x174c ASMedia Technology Inc.
      idProduct          0x55aa ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge
      bcdDevice            1.00
      iManufacturer           2 ASMedia
      iProduct                3 ASM105x
      iSerial                 1 8CHUDHEE            
    ...
    Bus 002 Device 002: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge
    Device Descriptor:
      bLength                18
      bDescriptorType         1
      bcdUSB               3.00
      bDeviceClass            0 
      bDeviceSubClass         0 
      bDeviceProtocol         0 
      bMaxPacketSize0         9
      idVendor           0x174c ASMedia Technology Inc.
      idProduct          0x55aa ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge
      bcdDevice            1.00
      iManufacturer           2 CnMemory
      iProduct                3 USB3-SATA-Device
      iSerial                 1 123456789012

    But this seems not to be important as both forward the original disk ID:

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    But the most important part: Both support forwarding the standby mode which solves the issue:

     

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    sdb=disk3=bus002device003

    sda=disk6=bus002device002

     

    Performance is good as well:

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    As I was not able to find out how to check the sleep state if the usb adapter does not support the command, I close this bug report as its not solvable. The user needs to use a different adapter.

    Edited by mgutt
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    @JorgeB

    Maybe its useful to throw an error notification if the 

    /usr/sbin/smartctl --nocheck standby -A /dev/sdb

    returns this?

    CHECK POWER MODE not implemented

    So the user knows that he needs to use a different adapter.

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    I don't recommend using USB for array/pool devices, so don't think it's a high prioruty issue, still not my decision of course, it's up to LT.

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    On 10/17/2020 at 10:30 AM, mgutt said:

    I opened a ticket at smartmontools, so the tool hopefully changes its behaviour.

    Saw your ticket in Smartmontools, will take a look and look at a patch, as I think this would be good for UD USB devices, that dont support Power Mode

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