Is there a way to set the server to do a staggered spin Up?  Apperently my psu sucks because if i start it up (cold start) it shuts itself off almost immediatly.  Im running low on funds right now so i was wondering if i can just do this for a temp. fix. 

There is an option called power up in standby.

Some drives have this enabled by a jumper (I think it's the WD drives).

Others require a software command (Segates).

The command is sent via hdparm.

 

At some point you have to have the machine up in order to send the command.

 

I believe the options are

 

-s1

and you have to add

--yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing

 

Note this will lengthen the boot process.

In addition, some drives may not spin up when told to..

I have not not encourterd any problems with the WD green drives and the seagate 32MB cache drives.

 

Here is my S01-hdparm script called from /boot/config/go

Set your serial numbers as below in the list.

Warning. I cannot be responsible if your drive does not come up or you hose it.

 

 

root@Atlas /boot/custom/etc/rc.d #more S01-hdparm

#!/bin/bash

PUIS="-s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing"
HDPARM_TEST="-Tt "
UDMA6="-X udma6"

TMPFILE=/tmp/S01-hdparm.$$
trap "rm -f ${TMPFILE}" EXIT HUP INT QUIT TERM

while read DISK PARM
do
    [ -z "${DISK%\#*}" ] && continue
    echo
    ls -l ${DISK} > ${TMPFILE}
    read -a LS    < ${TMPFILE}
    # hddtemp -f /dev/null ${DISK} 2>/dev/null
    hdparm -I ${DISK} | egrep -i 'Number:' | tr -s " " " " | tr -d '\t\n'
    echo " -> ${LS[10]}"
    if [ "${SET:=YES}" = "YES" ]
       then hdparm ${PARM} ${DISK}
    fi
    if [ "${TEST:=NO}" = "YES" ]
       then hdparm ${HDPARM_TEST} ${DISK}
    fi
    # hdparm -I ${DISK} | egrep -i standby
done <<-EOF
# Symlinked devies by serial number
# list with a similar command like this.
# ls -1 /dev/disk/by-id | grep scsi-SATA* | grep -v part
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000340AS_3QJ08RZW -S242
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000340AS_5QJ0BH1D -S242
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000340AS_9QJ1Q30B -S242
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ0353226 -S242 ${PUIS}
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ0437718 -S242 ${PUIS}
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ0808397 -S242 ${PUIS}
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1352706 -S242 ${PUIS}
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1353170 -S242 ${PUIS}
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-32_WD-WCASJ0126857 -S242 ${PUIS}
#
# Hard coded devices 
# /dev/sda -S242 -s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing
# /dev/sdb -S242 -s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing
# /dev/sdd -S242 -s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing
# /dev/sdc -S242 -s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing
# /dev/sde -S242 -s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing
# /dev/sdf -S242 -s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing
# /dev/sdg -S242 -s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing
EOF

... Im running low on funds right now so i was wondering if i can just do this for a temp. fix. 

 

also get yourself down to the municipal dump with a screw driver. you WILL find more PSUs there and some simple wiriing would allow you to run more than one.

Yea i thought about that but i dont know how to do it and wasnt sure it was even possible. I do have an extra psu. is there a guide somewhere? or do you happen to have any guidence?

 

 

thanks.