deanpelton

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  1. Have you tried this command? Note this can put the drives into a standby state that could require a power cycle to bring them back up. You would need to find the number of the drive (sgX instead of shX). sg_start -S /dev/sgX I have no success with the command the script uses which is --pc=3 flag instead of -S, however scrolling back through this thread you will see that there are people whose drives this disabled due to it powering down. So best to test this with the array off and do a reboot after.
  2. Are you running any apps that would poll these drives for status? E.g. Autofan or Telegraf? When you spin the drives down can you hear them spin down and back up again? You might just be unlucky, but I managed to get mine working by putting exclusions in telegraf and Autofan.
  3. Okay I managed to figure this out for my drive as it was a couple of issues by moving the drives into Unassigned Drives. First issue: drive won't stay spun down. Even with everything perfect, issuing --readonly --pc=3 to the drive would not consistently keep it spun down, it would spin down then back up again almost immediately. I swapped from using that to using the line below: sg_start -S /dev/sgX This resulted in MUCH more consistent spin down for my Seagate x16 drives. Is there a reason pc=3 is preferable to -S? Second issue: spinning back up again. When using sg_start --readonly --pc=3 when I spun down my drives, the log would look like this: Mar 8 22:00:07 Adam-HTPC emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sde Mar 8 22:00:07 Adam-HTPC SAS Assist v2022.08.02: Spinning down device /dev/sde Mar 8 22:00:26 Adam-HTPC emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sde The timing was never consistent either, it would be anywhere from 5 - 30 seconds, and then it would spin up again. Thus I assumed something was accessing it that doesn't spin up SATA drives, at this moment I suspect it's Telegraf, which I run for logging. Pausing / Stopping this appears to fix my issue entirely! I suspect the smart_ctl that Telegraf is using appears to spin up the sas drives like it used to with sata drives, and because they take so long to spin down it appears to the user like they never spun down at all. I also suspect that because the Seagate drives take SO long to spin down, that the standby setting is not yet set in SmartCtl, so when Telegraf pings them every 3 seconds, mid-spindown, it spins the drive back up again.
  4. Okay so I've been playing with this for a few days now and moved the Seagate SAS drive to UD. The drive is not mounted and has no data or filesystem on it. I can confirm also that the below command DOES spin the drive down, I hear the platter stop and the head park, and can feel the drive is no longer spinning. sdparm --command=sense /dev/sde sg_start -rp3 /dev/sdx I also run this to confirm it's down sdparm --command=sense /dev/sg4 /dev/sg4: SEAGATE ST10000NM002G E004 Additional sense: Standby condition activated by command The issue is... it spins back up! And continues to click and move the head like it's doing something perpetually. I've turned off BMS (self scan), and confirmed it's not actually scanning using smartctl -x. Really stuck as to what the hell the drive is doing, File Activiy shows nothing, I'm not running system fan. Open to idea's as to where to look, but I very much would like to fill my server with these but not if they are going to waste power.
  5. So I upgarded to a SAS 2308 controller (from the Dell H310), and also got a couple more SAS drives. It appears to work intermittetly with the HUH721010AL5200 (WD Ultrastar DC HC510), but not at all with the Seagate x16's I have. Has anyone have Seagate x16's they have managed to spin down?
  6. So I ran the command, the status on the Unraid page did not change. Running the status command immedately after gave the following: /dev/sdf: SEAGATE ST10000NM002G E003 Unsure what this means.
  7. The drive is a parity drive and all other drives are spun down during my attempts. I am running Unraid 6.11.5. I suspected this so I spin it down, then quickly refresh the page on another webpage to see if it goes grey, however it doesn't. Is there another way to test?
  8. Hi, I'm running ST10000NM002G with a Dell H310 and this plugin appears not to work. I get the following in my log: Feb 21 12:50:00 Adam-HTPC emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdf Feb 21 12:50:00 Adam-HTPC SAS Assist v2022.08.02: Spinning down device /dev/sdf Feb 21 12:50:19 Adam-HTPC emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdf However the drive does not appear to spin down. I read through the entire thread and I can't see anyone comming on my specific combo, wondering if anyone else is running Seagate X16 SAS drive OR a Dell H310 and has it working?
  9. Hi All, I know this is a stupid question, however search and youtube has found me no satisfying answers, so here I am posting. I have just purchases an ex mining SAS drive for Unraid Exos 10tb (around 4k hours, good deal!). I run a Dell H310, with 7 connected SATA HDD's using standard breakout SAS to SATA cables. I know that I can mix and match with a HBA, and that SAS drives have drop in support for Unraid. Where I am stuck is how to connect and power my new SAS drive. AFAIK there is a different connection on the SAS drive that means it's not a direct connection to the HBA, so whats the best avenue for connecting and powering the SAS drive on my final connection on the HBA. Do I need an adapter like this. Or am I way off?
  10. I have one of these in a node 804. At idle sits at 35c, however under heavy load peaks at around 45. Yours seems slightly higher, but my drive sits around a lot of airflow so seems normal.
  11. Okay after reading another forum post about docker permissions issues, i have figured it out!. The issue was the script was owned by a user it seems. Changing ownership of the script from user to nobody let's qbittorrent run it fine. Interested to know specifically what change in 6.10.3 makes this the case, I went through the change log with a fine tooth cone and couldn't see anything obvious.
  12. I upgraded from 6.9.2 last night to 6.10.3 without any other issues. However, I am also running an automation script on my binhex/arch-qbittorrentvpn:4.3.3-1-07 docker. The script is designed to unrar files and send them to encode based on their names. I have not updated this docker, and tested the script by putting in the variables manually, however I get 'can not access file, permissions denied'. Files are created by the docker with umask 000, and are rw by everyone. So really struggling to see a solution. Can anyone else tell me what may have changed in the new version of unraid that is stopping my script from running? TorrentMove.bash adam-htpc-diagnostics-20220814-1201.zip
  13. Okay I rebuilt onto an IronWolf I had hot spare. Precleared the drive (which went very fast!) then tried to write the 3TB back to it. Got 1tb in then write speed tanked. RMA'ing the drive now.
  14. Thanks Jorge. So you suspect the drive is failing? I wish there was something in the SMART data that actually could tell me this. I know SMR should read the same speed as a CMR drive which is why I suspected something was off. What do you mean by a full disk write?
  15. Hi All, I had a slow parity check last week (around 24 hours for 4tb. 100% increase in time). Also had 2 days where mover broke trying to move on to my SMR ST4000DM004 drive (#2 of 3 SMR drives). It was running at under 500kb/s for almost 12 hours before I killed it. I suspect the cause of both my issues is displayed in the graph below, something seems to be not quite right with Disk2. It's currently about 65% full, I have run many extended SMART tests on it, and the DiskSpeed check for it is below in black compared to the other SMR drives: This happened once on Desk1 before when I was stupidly moving stuff between drives and wrote a lot more than the capacity to the drives, it was resolved by: Copying data from Drive to an external drive. Pulling the drive. Running a clean (zeroing entire drive) Copying data back to drive consecutively (this ran at a spiritedly 150mb/s, which is how I knew it fixed the issue) Removing parity, adding the drive, and doing a parity rebuild. Note I did it this way because it was the easiest way to write the data consecutively onto the drive tracks, as far as I understand a parity rebuild of the drive would have returned the data to the exact same state (track by track). Unraid post referring to this issue: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/102913-solved-unbearably-slow-disk-to-disk-write-speeds-1mbs/ Questions: Do we think thing this drive is dead? Has anyone seen a drive do this before? Is it worth doing what I did above again to recover it? Does anyone one run SMR drives with this issue? Thanks 🙂 adam-htpc-diagnostics-20220316-1515.zip
  16. Now this is a good idea, and will probably be what I am doing this weekend now!
  17. HI mate, Strongly recomend you return this and try and buy one already flashed to IT mode from ebay. Something like this: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/133687906133?epid=24044875799&hash=item1f206b8f55:g:rQQAAOSwAjlgSGZc I got my dell H310 from this seller, seems to specalise in these, and they are much cheaper than buying a new card. If not possible then hopefully someone here can assist you to flash it to IT mode.
  18. I purchased a couple of cheap ex apple 500gb 2.5" spinner from fb marketplace. Add them as unassigned drives and use them for all my torrents and seeding. Why? Torrents can be huge depending on I'm doing, and I don't like them adding additional writes or taking up space on my cache. As far as I am concerned, there is no risk to having a cheap drive used for torrents failing, because then I can just reload them. So the cheaper the better!
  19. I would suggest disabling C-states in the BIOS. I was running a 1600 AF for a time, even though it is still based on Zen+ it still causes issues with C-states. Example:
  20. Fascinating, I hadn't thought about that! I run an mtax case, so I only have the 1 PCIe slot and I am maxed out between the 8 from the LSI and the 4 on my motherboard, looks like you just gave me a way out. Had no idea about these expander cards.
  21. This happens to me after powerloss reset as well. I run a daily backup of this docker so I can restore normally, one of the most annoying things is the way it moves all my torrents into it's docker folder because it forgets all the category mapping.
  22. Great looking setup! One question, I have a similar LSI card which i smacked a 40mm Nocuta on like you, wonder how you knew the temp of the card? You mentioned it decreased the temp a lot. Love to see if I can measure how well my one is working. Also wondering why you went with an Expander card rather than just use the ports on your mobo for the rest?
  23. Thanks for all your hard work here TexasUnraid. I am quite shocked to see that you can bring it lower than an xfs cache. I just converted my desktop over to unraid over the weekend which has a cache pool and immediately jumped over to check if this was fixed, I will duck down the rabbit hole maybe in the coming evenings and see if I can replicate what you have done here. Couple of questions, I am using Influxdb and telegraf to monitor writes, do you mind sharing the monitoring software and process you were using to measure this as well?
  24. Following this I was able to get this configured to my Kingston M.2 ssd as well, however my cache is an crucial mx500. Poking about with the query, by setting the Serial# to the SSD, then AND Name, it appears none of the metrics appear for my SSD. The Smart Attribute is Total_LBAs_Written, yet querying the db for that appears to have no data for the serial number of my SSD. Looking at the smart attributes table, looks like the Serial# for my ssd is missing and in infinity symbol appears instead. How curious. Edit - Managed to get it working by looking at ID 246 instead of name. However it's reporting 360pb, so something still not quite right. Not sure these MX500's have a value for total reads in Smart stats.
  25. I have set this up but haven't got any images for my VM's or my Dockers. Is there some specific that looks at these that I can check out?