I did start a similer thread the other week but i have narrowed down problem to just my st8000vn004-2m2101 drives

 

So upgrated to 6.12.13 ther other week (its been 2 maybe 3 years seen i updated) and 5 of 9 array drive will not spin down clicking the spin down button doesn't work and i have the drive set to spin down arfter 45 mints.

 

I have two types of speeing drives

 

st8000vn004-2m2101 

These will not spin down

 

ST8000VN004-3CP101

Work find

 

I am running running two different ASM1166 controllers but i dont think that is the problme as some of the 2m2101 drives are on both controllers.

 

Restarting the system did fix it for about a week but this problme is back. I have not made any change to the system so not shore where to start.

 

Im thinking of picking up a SAS 3 HBA as i know the SAS 2 some have problmes with the Seagate IronWolf st8000vn004 drives.

 

Any idea the diagnostic is attached.

 

Edit May 2025

So the problme is related to me using spin up i did pick up a LSI 9400-16i but i got the same problme if i use spin up.

 

If i dont use spin up everything works as intended. 

 

carbonblack-diagnostics-20241207-1923.zip

Edited May 5, 20251 yr by 12_purple_giraffes
update

Don't remember anyone else having a similar issue, could be a drive firmware problem.