December 3, 201411 yr unRAID OS Version: unRAID 6b12 Description: Disk status indicator and temperature are not accurately reflected on the Dashboard or Main pages. How to reproduce: Allow inactivity to spin down disks. Check syslog and unmenu to verify. Expected results: All array disks should show as spun down. No temps should be shown. Actual results: All array disks except disk 12 show as spun down and disk 12 shows a temperature. Other information: This did not happen under unRAID 6b10a. I've rebooted several times, tried 3 browsers, and cleared their browser cache. Attached pictures and syslog: http://1drv.ms/1w1iYZS http://1drv.ms/1w1j2Zy http://1drv.ms/1w1j6bJ Thanks, Gary Edit: Updated subject and problem syslog.txt
December 3, 201411 yr Based on my history of both standard and Dynamix temps are not reports if the drive is spun down. Usually this is the drive no longer reporting the temp. Have seen some drives break this way of doing reporting
December 3, 201411 yr Author Thanks Thornwood. You could be right about Dynamix disk temps not being displayed on disks that are spundown. I just haven't used Dynamix since unRAID 6b2. Disk temps are being displayed in unmenu mymain page even though they are spun down. Only my WD drives do this. So, I assumed Dynamix did show temps on spun down drives. So, if Dynamix does not show temps on spun down drives, then the problem is that Dynamix is not updating disk 12 when the drives automatically spin down. I'll restate the symptoms again so I don't confuse anyone. Syslog: Shows all disks spun down except cache drive. This was done by spin down timer. Mymain: Shows all disks spun down except cache drive. All WD drives show temps even though they are spun down. Dynamix: Shows all disks spun down except disk 12 and cache drive. Disk 12 shows temp. Other information: I don't use cache dirs or docker and use 1 spin up group for all disks. If I manually spin down all disks, then Dynamix shows that they are all spun down and no disk temps get displayed. So, based on this and what Thornwood has told me, I think the problem now is that the disk 12 status is not getting updated when the spin down timer automatically spins down the drives. Gary
December 3, 201411 yr I would think it is more likely that disk12 has not been spun down for some reason. Have you done any investigation (probably using lsof command) to see if anything has firs open on disk12?
December 3, 201411 yr Author No, I haven't. I'm not Linux savvy so I don't know what to try. If there is something I can do to help diagnose the problem, I'm all ears. It's just weird as the syslog and unmenu shows disk 12 as spun down but dynamix doesn't.
December 3, 201411 yr Author More info: lsof | grep disk Returns no results lsof | grep /mnt/ Returns my Windows7.qcow file open. This is in use for my Windows7 VM under Xen which resides on an SSD outside of the array. Disk 12 still shows it is spinning, shows smart status indicator, and displays a temp. Syslog and unmenu show disk 12 as not spinning. Anything else I can do to help with this issue? Gary Edit: Attached a new syslog syslog.txt
December 3, 201411 yr Post the output of hdparm -C /dev/sd? and smartctl -a /dev/sd? Where ? is the device letter of the drive.
December 3, 201411 yr Author hdparm -C /dev/sdm /dev/sdm: drive state is: active/idle smartctl -a /dev/sdm smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.17.4-unRAID] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green (AF) Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 Serial Number: WD-WCAZA4999014 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2059a5203 Firmware Version: 51.0AB51 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s Local Time is: Wed Dec 3 17:30:08 2014 CST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (36180) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 349) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x3035) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 214 162 021 Pre-fail Always - 4291 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2875 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 069 069 000 Old_age Always - 23340 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 205 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 57 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 008 008 000 Old_age Always - 577606 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 126 111 000 Old_age Always - 24 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. lsof | grep /mnt/disk12 Does not return any results So it appears it isn't spinning down automatically. syslog.txt
December 4, 201411 yr try fuser -cu /mnt/disk12 can you try to issue hdparm -y /dev/sdm This will spin down the drive. then do hdparm -C /dev/sdm There are some counters that emhttp is tracking in /proc or /sys that determine if the device is being read. I cannot remember what they are at the moment, maybe someone else will know before I figure it out. Also dump out the disk.cfg file in /boot/config/disk.cfg cat /boot/config/disk.cfg
December 4, 201411 yr Author Thanks WeeboTech. Here are the commands and results. fuser -cu /mnt/disk12 No results returned by fuser. hdparm -y /dev/sdm issuing standby command Dynamix now shows disk 12 as spun down after this command. hdparm -C /dev/sdm drive state is: standby root@FileSvr:~# cat /boot/config/disk.cfg # Generated settings: startArray="yes" spindownDelay="3" queueDepth="1" spinupGroups="yes" defaultFormat="2" defaultFsType="xfs" poll_spindown="10" md_num_stripes="1536" md_write_limit="768" md_sync_window="640" diskFsType.0="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.0="-1" diskSpinupGroup.0="host7" diskFsType.1="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.1="-1" diskSpinupGroup.1="Movies" diskExport.1="eh" diskSecurity.1="secure" diskReadList.1="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.1="gary" diskExportNFS.1="-" diskSecurityNFS.1="public" diskHostListNFS.1="" diskExportAFP.1="-" diskSecurityAFP.1="public" diskReadListAFP.1="" diskWriteListAFP.1="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.1="" diskVoldbpathAFP.1="" diskFsType.2="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.2="-1" diskSpinupGroup.2="Movies" diskExport.2="eh" diskSecurity.2="secure" diskReadList.2="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.2="gary" diskExportNFS.2="-" diskSecurityNFS.2="public" diskHostListNFS.2="" diskExportAFP.2="-" diskSecurityAFP.2="public" diskReadListAFP.2="" diskWriteListAFP.2="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.2="" diskVoldbpathAFP.2="" diskFsType.3="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.3="-1" diskSpinupGroup.3="Movies" diskExport.3="eh" diskSecurity.3="secure" diskReadList.3="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.3="gary" diskExportNFS.3="-" diskSecurityNFS.3="public" diskHostListNFS.3="" diskExportAFP.3="-" diskSecurityAFP.3="public" diskReadListAFP.3="" diskWriteListAFP.3="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.3="" diskVoldbpathAFP.3="" diskFsType.4="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.4="-1" diskSpinupGroup.4="Movies" diskExport.4="eh" diskSecurity.4="secure" diskReadList.4="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.4="gary" diskExportNFS.4="-" diskSecurityNFS.4="public" diskHostListNFS.4="" diskExportAFP.4="-" diskSecurityAFP.4="public" diskReadListAFP.4="" diskWriteListAFP.4="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.4="" diskVoldbpathAFP.4="" diskFsType.5="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.5="-1" diskSpinupGroup.5="Movies" diskExport.5="eh" diskSecurity.5="secure" diskReadList.5="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.5="gary" diskExportNFS.5="-" diskSecurityNFS.5="public" diskHostListNFS.5="" diskExportAFP.5="-" diskSecurityAFP.5="public" diskReadListAFP.5="" diskWriteListAFP.5="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.5="" diskVoldbpathAFP.5="" diskFsType.6="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.6="-1" diskSpinupGroup.6="Movies" diskExport.6="eh" diskSecurity.6="secure" diskReadList.6="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.6="gary" diskExportNFS.6="-" diskSecurityNFS.6="public" diskHostListNFS.6="" diskExportAFP.6="-" diskSecurityAFP.6="public" diskReadListAFP.6="" diskWriteListAFP.6="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.6="" diskVoldbpathAFP.6="" diskFsType.7="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.7="-1" diskSpinupGroup.7="Movies" diskExport.7="eh" diskSecurity.7="secure" diskReadList.7="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.7="gary" diskExportNFS.7="-" diskSecurityNFS.7="public" diskHostListNFS.7="" diskExportAFP.7="-" diskSecurityAFP.7="public" diskReadListAFP.7="" diskWriteListAFP.7="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.7="" diskVoldbpathAFP.7="" diskFsType.8="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.8="-1" diskSpinupGroup.8="Movies" diskExport.8="eh" diskSecurity.8="secure" diskReadList.8="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.8="gary" diskExportNFS.8="-" diskSecurityNFS.8="public" diskHostListNFS.8="" diskExportAFP.8="-" diskSecurityAFP.8="public" diskReadListAFP.8="" diskWriteListAFP.8="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.8="" diskVoldbpathAFP.8="" diskFsType.9="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.9="-1" diskSpinupGroup.9="Movies" diskExport.9="eh" diskSecurity.9="secure" diskReadList.9="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.9="gary" diskExportNFS.9="-" diskSecurityNFS.9="public" diskHostListNFS.9="" diskExportAFP.9="-" diskSecurityAFP.9="public" diskReadListAFP.9="" diskWriteListAFP.9="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.9="" diskVoldbpathAFP.9="" diskFsType.10="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.10="-1" diskSpinupGroup.10="Movies" diskExport.10="eh" diskSecurity.10="secure" diskReadList.10="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.10="gary" diskExportNFS.10="-" diskSecurityNFS.10="public" diskHostListNFS.10="" diskExportAFP.10="-" diskSecurityAFP.10="public" diskReadListAFP.10="" diskWriteListAFP.10="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.10="" diskVoldbpathAFP.10="" diskFsType.11="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.11="-1" diskSpinupGroup.11="Movies" diskExport.11="eh" diskSecurity.11="secure" diskReadList.11="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.11="gary" diskExportNFS.11="-" diskSecurityNFS.11="public" diskHostListNFS.11="" diskExportAFP.11="-" diskSecurityAFP.11="public" diskReadListAFP.11="" diskWriteListAFP.11="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.11="" diskVoldbpathAFP.11="" diskFsType.12="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.12="-1" diskSpinupGroup.12="Movies" diskExport.12="eh" diskSecurity.12="secure" diskReadList.12="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" diskWriteList.12="gary" diskExportNFS.12="-" diskSecurityNFS.12="public" diskHostListNFS.12="" diskExportAFP.12="-" diskSecurityAFP.12="public" diskReadListAFP.12="" diskWriteListAFP.12="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.12="" diskVoldbpathAFP.12="" diskFsType.13="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.13="-1" diskSpinupGroup.13="" diskExport.13="e" diskSecurity.13="public" diskReadList.13="" diskWriteList.13="" diskExportNFS.13="-" diskSecurityNFS.13="public" diskHostListNFS.13="" diskExportAFP.13="-" diskSecurityAFP.13="public" diskReadListAFP.13="" diskWriteListAFP.13="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.13="" diskVoldbpathAFP.13="" diskFsType.14="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.14="-1" diskSpinupGroup.14="" diskExport.14="e" diskSecurity.14="public" diskReadList.14="" diskWriteList.14="" diskExportNFS.14="-" diskSecurityNFS.14="public" diskHostListNFS.14="" diskExportAFP.14="-" diskSecurityAFP.14="public" diskReadListAFP.14="" diskWriteListAFP.14="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.14="" diskVoldbpathAFP.14="" diskFsType.15="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.15="-1" diskSpinupGroup.15="" diskExport.15="e" diskSecurity.15="public" diskReadList.15="" diskWriteList.15="" diskExportNFS.15="-" diskSecurityNFS.15="public" diskHostListNFS.15="" diskExportAFP.15="-" diskSecurityAFP.15="public" diskReadListAFP.15="" diskWriteListAFP.15="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.15="" diskVoldbpathAFP.15="" diskFsType.16="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.16="-1" diskSpinupGroup.16="" diskExport.16="e" diskSecurity.16="public" diskReadList.16="" diskWriteList.16="" diskExportNFS.16="-" diskSecurityNFS.16="public" diskHostListNFS.16="" diskExportAFP.16="-" diskSecurityAFP.16="public" diskReadListAFP.16="" diskWriteListAFP.16="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.16="" diskVoldbpathAFP.16="" diskFsType.17="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.17="-1" diskSpinupGroup.17="" diskExport.17="e" diskSecurity.17="public" diskReadList.17="" diskWriteList.17="" diskExportNFS.17="-" diskSecurityNFS.17="public" diskHostListNFS.17="" diskExportAFP.17="-" diskSecurityAFP.17="public" diskReadListAFP.17="" diskWriteListAFP.17="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.17="" diskVoldbpathAFP.17="" diskFsType.18="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.18="-1" diskSpinupGroup.18="" diskExport.18="e" diskSecurity.18="public" diskReadList.18="" diskWriteList.18="" diskExportNFS.18="-" diskSecurityNFS.18="public" diskHostListNFS.18="" diskExportAFP.18="-" diskSecurityAFP.18="public" diskReadListAFP.18="" diskWriteListAFP.18="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.18="" diskVoldbpathAFP.18="" diskFsType.19="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.19="-1" diskSpinupGroup.19="" diskExport.19="e" diskSecurity.19="public" diskReadList.19="" diskWriteList.19="" diskExportNFS.19="-" diskSecurityNFS.19="public" diskHostListNFS.19="" diskExportAFP.19="-" diskSecurityAFP.19="public" diskReadListAFP.19="" diskWriteListAFP.19="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.19="" diskVoldbpathAFP.19="" diskFsType.20="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.20="-1" diskSpinupGroup.20="" diskExport.20="e" diskSecurity.20="public" diskReadList.20="" diskWriteList.20="" diskExportNFS.20="-" diskSecurityNFS.20="public" diskHostListNFS.20="" diskExportAFP.20="-" diskSecurityAFP.20="public" diskReadListAFP.20="" diskWriteListAFP.20="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.20="" diskVoldbpathAFP.20="" diskFsType.21="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.21="-1" diskSpinupGroup.21="" diskExport.21="e" diskSecurity.21="public" diskReadList.21="" diskWriteList.21="" diskExportNFS.21="-" diskSecurityNFS.21="public" diskHostListNFS.21="" diskExportAFP.21="-" diskSecurityAFP.21="public" diskReadListAFP.21="" diskWriteListAFP.21="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.21="" diskVoldbpathAFP.21="" diskFsType.22="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.22="-1" diskSpinupGroup.22="" diskExport.22="e" diskSecurity.22="public" diskReadList.22="" diskWriteList.22="" diskExportNFS.22="-" diskSecurityNFS.22="public" diskHostListNFS.22="" diskExportAFP.22="-" diskSecurityAFP.22="public" diskReadListAFP.22="" diskWriteListAFP.22="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.22="" diskVoldbpathAFP.22="" diskFsType.23="reiserfs" diskSpindownDelay.23="-1" diskSpinupGroup.23="" diskExport.23="e" diskSecurity.23="public" diskReadList.23="" diskWriteList.23="" diskExportNFS.23="-" diskSecurityNFS.23="public" diskHostListNFS.23="" diskExportAFP.23="-" diskSecurityAFP.23="public" diskReadListAFP.23="" diskWriteListAFP.23="" diskVolsizelimitAFP.23="" diskVoldbpathAFP.23="" cacheId="WDC_WD6400AAKS-00A7B0_WD-WMASY1070643" cacheUUID="" cacheFsType="btrfs" cacheSpindownDelay="-1" cacheSpinupGroup="" cacheExport="eh" cacheSecurity="secure" cacheReadList="crystal,hometheater,livingroom,mbedroom" cacheWriteList="gary" cacheExportNFS="-" cacheSecurityNFS="public" cacheHostListNFS="" cacheExportAFP="-" cacheSecurityAFP="public" cacheReadListAFP="" cacheWriteListAFP="" cacheVolsizelimitAFP="" cacheVoldbpathAFP="" root@FileSvr:~# Gary
December 4, 201411 yr Hmm... I'm not seeing anything obvious. root@unRAID:/boot/config# grep -i 'spindownDelay' /tmp/file spindownDelay="3" diskSpindownDelay.0="-1" diskSpindownDelay.1="-1" diskSpindownDelay.2="-1" diskSpindownDelay.3="-1" diskSpindownDelay.4="-1" diskSpindownDelay.5="-1" diskSpindownDelay.6="-1" diskSpindownDelay.7="-1" diskSpindownDelay.8="-1" diskSpindownDelay.9="-1" diskSpindownDelay.10="-1" diskSpindownDelay.11="-1" diskSpindownDelay.12="-1" diskSpindownDelay.13="-1" diskSpindownDelay.14="-1" diskSpindownDelay.15="-1" diskSpindownDelay.16="-1" diskSpindownDelay.17="-1" diskSpindownDelay.18="-1" diskSpindownDelay.19="-1" diskSpindownDelay.20="-1" diskSpindownDelay.21="-1" diskSpindownDelay.22="-1" diskSpindownDelay.23="-1" cacheSpindownDelay="-1"
December 11, 201411 yr unRAID OS Version: unRAID 6b12 Description: Disk status indicator and temperature are not accurately reflected on the Dashboard or Main pages. How to reproduce: Allow inactivity to spin down disks. Check syslog and unmenu to verify. Expected results: All array disks should show as spun down. No temps should be shown. Actual results: All array disks except disk 12 show as spun down and disk 12 shows a temperature. Other information: This did not happen under unRAID 6b10a. I've rebooted several times, tried 3 browsers, and cleared their browser cache. Attached pictures and syslog: http://1drv.ms/1w1iYZS http://1drv.ms/1w1j2Zy http://1drv.ms/1w1j6bJ Thanks, Gary Edit: Updated subject and problem Please boot into safemode, discontinue use of all plugins, and report back if this issue persists. Need to rule out any possibilities of plugins affecting this before we can dig deeper.
December 11, 201411 yr Author I'm pre-clearing a drive at the moment and will do a drive replacement after that. Once that is complete, I'll test further with no plugins or Xen. Gary
December 11, 201411 yr I'm pre-clearing a drive at the moment and will do a drive replacement after that. Once that is complete, I'll test further with no plugins or Xen. Gary Well you can keep using Xen, it's just the plugins for now that I want to make sure aren't causing this. And your VM doesn't have any drive mappings to disk 12 or anything like that, right?
December 12, 201411 yr Author No drive mappings used in the VM. Besides nightly PC backups and my tinkering lately, my unRAID server only gets used twice a week on average. The drives are spun down most of the time, except disk 12. LOL. They have been spun down since 8:00 this morning and I have just spun them up now. Gary
December 15, 201411 yr Author This seems to be a plugin issue in my limited testing so far. Booting into unRAID w/ Xen safe mode does perform a proper spin down as I would expect. Booting into unRAID w/ Xen with a VM running, and apcupsd and powerdown plugins enabled, still exhibit proper spin down behavior. I'm in the process of narrowing down which plugin it is and will report back with my findings. I'm going to mark this as solved as it does not appear to be a core unRAID 6b12 problem. Gary
December 16, 201411 yr Author Update: Well, I thought I had this problem solved as removing all of my plugins and booting into safe mode with a stock go file appeared to allow my disk 12 (disk 12 is now disk 9 as I did a new config). In the process of trying to find out what plugin exactly caused the problem, I think that it may not be a addon plugin at all. Booting into a stock unRAID 6b12 in Xen mode, no plugins, did not provide consistent results as disk 9 did not always spin down. The behavior was a lot less frequent but not consistent. The only variable left was mounting my SSD outside of the array through the go file. I'm not running VM's during testing. Just mounting the SSD outside of the array. I'm still testing this for consistency, but so far, my disk 9 has always spun down.
December 16, 201411 yr An SSD should not affect spin down or spin up in the slightest way. They don't themselves spin up or down, and shouldn't affect that ability of other drives, the 'spinners'. The only way I can think of an SSD being involved is if Spin groups are enabled and the spin group labels are mixed up, which could happen if drives are being moved around and the labels aren't correct. I suppose if Disk 9 and the SSD had the same label, then a spin down command to the SSD's group might be ignored, leaving Disk 9 spun up. (Label may not be the correct word, but I can't remember what the correct word should be!)
December 17, 201411 yr Author You're right. But I'm just reporting what I find. Every time I think I am close to an answer, something disproves it. Oddly enough, if I boot up unRAID 6b12 with all my plugins, but disable the lines in my go file that mount the SSD outside of the array and don't start my Xen VM, disk 9 spins down every time. With a fresh unRAID installation and no plugins, no VM, but mounting the SSD outside the array, 1 out of 10 times, disk 9 will not spin down automatically. This behavior is so sporadic without any rhyme or reason, that it is hard to find a cause. I have to reboot each time during testing because I have also found that changing the spin down timer and waiting allows disk 9 to spin down as normal, even with all plugins loaded. Example: I can boot up and wait 30 minutes and all drives except disk 9 spin down. Then, spin up all the drives, change the timer to 15 minutes, then wait, and all drives including disk 9 will spin down. If I boot up and don't touch anything, disk 9 never spins down. Very weird issue. All drives are on the same spin up group. SSD is outside of the array so it can't be assigned a spin up group. It is actually on it's own controller too. I'm short on time the next few days but I will keep trying to see if I can get to the bottom of this. Gary Edit: added some config info. Go file lines that mount my SSD. mkdir /mnt/SSD mount -rw -o noatime,nodiratime,discard -t ext4 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SSD_830_Series_S0WFNYABC00539-part1 /mnt/SSD smb-extra.conf [sSD] path = /mnt/SSD security = USER guest account = nobody public = yes guest ok = yes map to guest = bad user read only = no browseable = yes Plugin List Powerdown Apcupsd Virtman Libvirt VM Manager Dynamix System Info Dynamix System Stats Dynamix Active Streams Dynamix System Temp unMenu
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