I have the drives set to never spindown but they are still spinning down.

Any ideas?

 

Can you post the contents of the disk.cfg file, found within the config folder of your unRAID flash drive?

Here it is:

 

# Disk configuration

spindownDelay=0

queueDepth=1

parity=pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-1:0:0:0

disk1=pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-0:0:0:0

disk2=pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-2:0:0:0

disk3=pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-3:0:0:0

disk4=pci-0000:00:14.1-ide-1:0

diskSpindownDelay.0=0

diskSpindownDelay.1=0

diskSpindownDelay.2=0

diskSpindownDelay.3=0

diskSpindownDelay.4=0

 

Make sure you don't have hard-drive spindown set in bios under the APM section.

Your settings look correct.  I don't know however what unRAID does when it sees these zeroes, whether it sends the disable spin down command, or assumes it does not need to send anything, since the normal default already is - no drive spin down.

 

You might try sending the disable command yourself, and monitor it.  Then if that stops the spinning down, shutdown and reboot, and see if the command persists across a reboot.  If not, you will need to add the series of spindown disable commands to your go script.

 

hdparm -S0 /dev/sdX

where sdX is replaced with your drive ID's (sda, sdb, hda, etc).  The command parameter is a 'hyphen, capital S, zero'.

 

And do check your BIOS settings as was mentioned above.  Also, double check all customizations you may have added, just to make sure nothing else is sending spin down controls.