Drives wont spin down

[chris0583]

Server was running perfectly at 6.9.1  after the upgrade my drives are spinning all day.  No matter what I do.  I do not have active stream or processes keeping the drives alive.  I shut down dockers and VM's and still nothing.  I can not even manually spin them down.  My current setup is in my signature.  Box has not changed in years except for the addition of the P4000 for Plex. 

 

 

 

[JorgeB]

There are some known spin down issues with v6.9.2, best bet for now is to downgrade to v6.9.1

[chris0583]

Thanks for the quick reply.   As usual you all the best support out there.   I will attempt a downgrade and see how it goes

 

[chris0583]

I have downgraded to 6.9.1 and after a week the drive still will not spin down, even if I click on them to force a spin down.  Would there be some lingering code still preventing the spind down?

[JorgeB]

14 minutes ago, chris0583 said:

even if I click on them to force a spin down.

This indicates there are other issues, manual spin down should always work, diags might give more clues.

[chris0583]

Thanks for the quick reply. Diagnostics attacked. 

 

storage2-diagnostics-20210712-0844.zip

[JorgeB]

You're using Areca controllers, not sure they support spin down, at least without any additional config/modifcation, try searching the forum or using a recommended controller if that's an option.

[chris0583]

It worked perfectly before the upgrade to 6.9.2   Once I upgraded it stop working. It was suggested I downgrade 6.9.1 which I did to fix it.   It did not 😢

[JorgeB]

If you are coming from v6.8.x there were several changes to spin down logic for v6.9, if it doesn't spin down manually with v6.9.2 likely it won't spin down with any v6.9 release.

[chris0583]

the drives spun down properly in 6.9.1.  this issue only came up when i upgraded to 6.9.2 and then downgraded to 6.9.1 

 

[JorgeB]

That doesn't make sense.