Hi,
this plugin just got pointed out to me on reddit and of course i instantly installed it, now i'm a bit confused.
see picture:
edit:
some more tesing shows that Disk 1, 2 and 3 get counted individually as you would expect.
Parity, 4, 5 and 6 ... = my four 8TB Seagate Iron Wolves, do not count up or down at all. (i intend to replace the small disks with more of these eventually).
edit 2:
i turned the server off and on again, did not help lol
edit 3:
i did read through the thread just now, seems to be a kind of common problem (some of them reported in 2017, so i don't suppose this will get fixed anytime soon).
i did enable the log and it keeps saying
Mar 30 15:19:38 UNRAID root: #012/dev/sdf:#012 drive state is: active/idle
Mar 30 15:19:38 UNRAID root: #012/dev/sdd:#012 drive state is: active/idle
Mar 30 15:19:38 UNRAID root: #012/dev/sde:#012 drive state is: active/idle
Mar 30 15:19:38 UNRAID root: #012/dev/sdc:#012 drive state is: unknown
Mar 30 15:19:38 UNRAID root: #012/dev/sdg:#012 drive state is: unknown
Mar 30 15:19:38 UNRAID root: #012/dev/sdh:#012 drive state is: unknown
Mar 30 15:19:38 UNRAID root: Total Spundown: 3
it does not list the parity disk here... i guess that needs to spin up when writing anyway so no need polling that.
i'm just wondering, if the unRAID GUI reports properly which disks are spinning (the green icons are always on point as far as i can tell), why not hook in there instead?
i've read 2 times the comment that the unRAID gui is "not real time" not sure what that means exactly, looks pretty real time to me when i'm looking at it, and what does it matter if the polling interval is by default set to 5 minutes (an eternity if you ask me).
Soooo, i got these disks connected to my motherboard, ASUS P8Z68-V Pro/GEN3 (90-MIBFIA-G0EAY00Z) ...that thing has 3 SATA controllers on it for its 8 ports, two controllers for SATA 3 (4 ports) and one for SATA 2 (4 ports), i most likely connected the 4 Seagate disks to the SATA 3 ports because they are the biggest fastest, that means the SATA 3 controllers both might not be reporting the HDD status OR the HDDs just don't support that info, which would be weird because those are specifically NAS drives and the newest of the bunch, if anything i'd expect old stuff not to support something like this, the board is over 5 years old, so ... hmmh.
Welp, i guess i leave the setting at 3 then.
That should be enough for me to enable Turbo mode when i have a few 100GB to dump on the server by just spinning everything up manually and then spin down manually after to disable it again. ...not the cleanest solution but it will do the job i wanted it to do i hope.