limawaken Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 (edited) over the weekend i swapped out my old LSI 8i HBA and connected all my disks to the 16i card. previously some were on the m/b sata controller and some were on the 8i. all my disks are SATA. even after a day all the disks would still be active (green dot). previously they were all able to spin down. i have tried updating to latest 6.11.5. there was a small difference after installing 6.11.5. on the previous 6.11.2 clicking the green dot would turn to the spinning circle and after a few seconds would go back to the green dot. on 6.11.5 clicking on the green dot would turn to the spinning circle forever. when i refresh the page it would be back to the green dot. i don't have turbo-write plugin installed and spin up group under disk settings is not enabled. as far as i can tell there is no read/write activity happening on the array. this is what clicking on disklog information shows: Dec 19 09:52:16 SILOmetalico kernel: sd 9:0:1:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/466 GiB) Dec 19 09:52:16 SILOmetalico kernel: sd 9:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off Dec 19 09:52:16 SILOmetalico kernel: sd 9:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 9b 00 10 08 Dec 19 09:52:16 SILOmetalico kernel: sd 9:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA Dec 19 09:52:16 SILOmetalico kernel: sdc: sdc1 Dec 19 09:52:16 SILOmetalico kernel: sd 9:0:1:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk Dec 19 09:52:36 SILOmetalico emhttpd: WDC_WD5000AAKX-001CA0_WD-WCAYUS199252 (sdc) 512 976773168 Dec 19 09:52:36 SILOmetalico kernel: mdcmd (9): import 8 sdc 64 488386552 0 WDC_WD5000AAKX-001CA0_WD-WCAYUS199252 Dec 19 09:52:36 SILOmetalico kernel: md: import disk8: (sdc) WDC_WD5000AAKX-001CA0_WD-WCAYUS199252 size: 488386552 Dec 19 09:52:36 SILOmetalico emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdc Dec 19 09:56:49 SILOmetalico emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdc Dec 19 09:56:49 SILOmetalico emhttpd: sdspin /dev/sdc down: 1 disklog does show that the disks spin down, but they actually are not (as far as i can tell). power usage seems to be between 125W - 135W, previously it would be at 95W - 105W when disks were idle. i looked through other similar posts but those seems to be related to SAS drives or some other plugin or disk activity. for my case, the only change is connecting all the drives to the 16i card. unraid booted up without any fuss. other than redoing the IOMMU group there was nothing else that had to be reconfigured. is there some setting i need to check on the LSI controller or in my bios? under my system devices the LSI card appears as Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02) any ideas what could be preventing all the disks from spinning down? thanks. Edited December 19, 2022 by limawaken Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Please post the diagnostics Quote Link to comment
limawaken Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 hi jb! here's the diagnostics. i'm currently rebuilding disk5, because earlier i had to remove a disk to change the caddy which had broken. i think it wasn't seated properly when i put it back... array started and disk was being emulated. strange because i'm very sure it didn't have any errors when the array first started. thanks. silometalico-diagnostics-20221219-1818.zip Quote Link to comment
Solution JorgeB Posted December 19, 2022 Solution Share Posted December 19, 2022 When the rebuild is done update the LSI firmware to latest, it's using an ancient version. Quote Link to comment
limawaken Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 you're awesome. firmware and bios updated, rebooted the machine and verified that the updated controller detected all the drives, then unraid started right up. after about 30 mins the disks spun down. back to 95w when array disks idle. that was it! amazing... just wow... 1 Quote Link to comment
Wingmanos Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Hey Limawaken, Do you have the files or URLs maybe. I am trying to find the firmware or BIOS files. But only just got a new card LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02) and noticed my drives dont spin down. When looking i see a whole lot of firmware files but when i open the readme they refrense cards that a re non the LSI SAS3008 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Go to Broadcom support site and look for the firmware for the 9300-8i. Quote Link to comment
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