[Plugin] CA Auto Turbo Write Mode


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Looks like your log message might have a line feed causing a blank line in the syslog:

Dec  6 05:15:38 MediaServer kernel: mdcmd (167): set md_write_method 0
Dec  6 05:15:38 MediaServer kernel: 

Not a big issue, but adds to the log.  Could you also change the message to 'set turbo write enable/disable' rather than 'set md_write_method 0/1'?

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Looks like your log message might have a line feed causing a blank line in the syslog:
Dec  6 05:15:38 MediaServer kernel: mdcmd (167): set md_write_method 0Dec  6 05:15:38 MediaServer kernel: 

Not a big issue, but adds to the log.  Could you also change the message to 'set turbo write enable/disable' rather than 'set md_write_method 0/1'?

That message and the blank line is logged by the md driver, not the plugin

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This has never worked for me. I have 20 disks and it always says 16 are spun down even though I have them all spun up. If I manually enable turbo write, it'll disable it because it thinks too many drives are spun down.image.png.6e04dd87a19cd5d04d689115307cf4e3.png
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Enable debug logging and then post diagnostics

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Hi,

 

I have a similar issue: 4 drives shown as spun down even though the MAIN tab has them spun up.

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I enabled debug logging and shortened the polling time. I also issued the spin up command to no avail.

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Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas root: Starting Auto Turbo
Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas root: #012/dev/sdb:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas root: #012/dev/sdc:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas root: #012/dev/sde:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas root: #012/dev/sdf:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas root: Total Spundown: 4
Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas root: Entering Normal Mode
Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas kernel: mdcmd (197): set md_write_method 0
Dec 6 16:07:28 atlas kernel: 
Dec 6 16:07:48 atlas root: #012/dev/sdb:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:07:48 atlas root: #012/dev/sdc:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:07:48 atlas root: #012/dev/sde:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:07:48 atlas root: #012/dev/sdf:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:07:48 atlas root: Total Spundown: 4
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas emhttpd: req (37): cmdSpinupAll=true&startState=STARTED&csrf_token=****************
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas emhttpd: Spinning up all drives...
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas emhttpd: shcmd (286): /usr/sbin/hdparm -S0 /dev/sdg
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas kernel: mdcmd (198): spinup 0
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas kernel: mdcmd (199): spinup 1
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas kernel: mdcmd (200): spinup 2
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas kernel: mdcmd (201): spinup 5
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas kernel: mdcmd (202): spinup 6
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas root: 
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas root: /dev/sdg:
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas root: setting standby to 0 (off)
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas emhttpd: shcmd (287): /usr/sbin/hdparm -S0 /dev/sdh
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas root: 
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas root: /dev/sdh:
Dec 6 16:07:49 atlas root: setting standby to 0 (off)
Dec 6 16:08:08 atlas root: #012/dev/sdb:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:08:08 atlas root: #012/dev/sdc:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:08:08 atlas root: #012/dev/sde:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:08:08 atlas root: #012/dev/sdf:#012 drive state is: standby
Dec 6 16:08:08 atlas root: Total Spundown: 4

 

What might help is those 4 disks (1/2/5/6) are on a Dell H310 Perc in IT Mode. The card has never given me trouble otherwise. Here is hdparm and it recognizes my cache drives as being active (on Intel Chipset) but not the drives on the H310:

 

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Linux 4.18.17-unRAID.
Last login: Wed Dec  5 10:48:33 -0800 2018 on /dev/pts/2.
root@atlas:~# hdparm -C /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 drive state is:  standby
root@atlas:~# hdparm -C /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:
 drive state is:  standby
root@atlas:~# hdparm -C /dev/sde

/dev/sde:
 drive state is:  standby
root@atlas:~# hdparm -C /dev/sdf

/dev/sdf:
 drive state is:  standby
root@atlas:~# hdparm -C /dev/sdg

/dev/sdg:
 drive state is:  active/idle
root@atlas:~# hdparm -C /dev/sdh

/dev/sdh:
 drive state is:  active/idle

 

Think I'm just SOL because of the H310?

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8 hours ago, jelthi said:

Hi,

 

I have a similar issue: 4 drives shown as spun down even though the MAIN tab has them spun up.

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I enabled debug logging and shortened the polling time. I also issued the spin up command to no avail.

 

What might help is those 4 disks (1/2/5/6) are on a Dell H310 Perc in IT Mode. The card has never given me trouble otherwise. Here is hdparm and it recognizes my cache drives as being active (on Intel Chipset) but not the drives on the H310:

 

 

Think I'm just SOL because of the H310?

Yeah, the plugin doesn't work for me either - and I have a Perc H310. So I think it's the culprit. 

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Ok so I installed the plugin and even after spinning up all drives it detects one drive as spundown. I ran hdparm on each disk and one of the disks on the H200 is reporting a status of "Unknown". The offending disk is /dev/sdg and it is a Seagate NAS HDD. I have another one of the same disk model installed and it reported it's status fine (sdf).

 

EDIT: weird after spinning SDG down and back up it is now detecting correctly.

EDIT2: Spoke to soon, left it for a minute or so and now SDG is back to unknown. It seems to snap out of it once I start copying data. 

 

root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdh

/dev/sdh:
 drive state is:  active/idle
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sde

/dev/sde:
 drive state is:  active/idle
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdj

/dev/sdj:
 drive state is:  active/idle
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdk

/dev/sdk:
 drive state is:  active/idle
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdl

/dev/sdl:
 drive state is:  active/idle
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 drive state is:  active/idle
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdf

/dev/sdf:
 drive state is:  active/idle

root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdg

/dev/sdg:
 drive state is:  unknown
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdg

/dev/sdg:
 drive state is:  unknown
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdi

/dev/sdi:
 drive state is:  active/idle
root@Node:/home/chris# hdparm -C /dev/sdd

/dev/sdd:
 drive state is:  active/idle

 

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On 2/27/2019 at 3:46 PM, Squid said:

The dashboard isn't real time when in doubt about the status of the drivers enable the logging in the plugin and you'll see what the drive reports

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Ok, thanks. Will look in to it.
Never seen 0 spun down. Always at least 1.

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Feb 27 18:37:36 Server root: #012/dev/sdg:#012 drive state is: unknown
Feb 27 18:37:36 Server root: #012/dev/sdf:#012 drive state is: standby
Feb 27 18:37:36 Server root: #012/dev/sde:#012 drive state is: standby
Feb 27 18:37:36 Server root: Total Spundown: 3

hm, sdg is spun up.


smartctl -i -n standby /dev/sdg seems to work better. Nothing "unknown" with smartctl.

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root@Server:~# smartctl -i -n standby /dev/sdg (up)
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.24-Unraid] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate IronWolf
Device Model:     ST4000VN008-2DR166
Serial Number:    
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0b29c58c1
Firmware Version: SC60
User Capacity:    4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5980 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Wed Feb 27 18:49:33 2019 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Power mode was:   IDLE_B
 

root@Server:~# smartctl -i -n standby /dev/sdf (down)
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.24-Unraid] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Device is in STANDBY mode, exit(2)

root@Server:~# smartctl -i -n standby /dev/sde (down)
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.24-Unraid] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Device is in STANDBY mode, exit(2)

Same with hdparm:
 

hdparm -C /dev/sdg (up)

/dev/sdg:
 drive state is:  unknown

(counted as spun down in the code, when actually spun up)

 

hdparm -C /dev/sdf (down)
/dev/sdf:
 drive state is:  standby
 

hdparm -C /dev/sde (down)

/dev/sde:
 drive state is:  standby
 


Edit again
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Powermode

Replace in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/ca.turbo/scripts/auto_turbo.php, set "Enable Automatic Turbo Mode" to no and then yes. Try. :)

Line 80:

$result = shell_exec("smartctl -i -n standby /dev/{$disk['device']} | awk 'NR==4'");

Line 84:

if ( strpos($result,"STANDBY") || strpos($result,"SLEEP") ) { 

gives me good result. 

 

Also changed the logging to be more clear for people like me (a bit stupid, lol)

logger("Total Data Drives Spun Down: $totalSpunDown/" . count($validDisks));

= "Feb 27 19:55:36 Server root: Total Data Drives Spun Down: 2/3"
 

with hdparm and "if ( ! strpos($result,"active") ) {" the code counts unknown as spun down because it can't find "active".

I guess it won't work good with devices or hba's without smart support? Could fall back to hdparm if so.

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I find these in my syslog:

Mar 12 18:37:46 SUN kernel: mdcmd (53): set md_write_method 1
Mar 12 18:37:51 SUN kernel: mdcmd (54): set md_write_method 0
Mar 12 18:47:09 SUN kernel: mdcmd (55): set md_write_method 1
Mar 12 18:47:14 SUN kernel: mdcmd (56): set md_write_method 0

 

I actually had this written in my GO file. md_write_method 1. This I assume turns on turbo mode, right? I did REM out that statement when I installed this plugin, but may just uninstall the plugin and put back the command since I never spin down any of my drives....ever. What would be my best most efficient method to keep turbo mode turned on? Keep this command  "set md_write_method 1" in my GO file? And that would keep turbo mode on all the time, correct?

Also the plugin is indicating I have 2 spun down drives, but all my drives spun up and none of them never spin down so I would rather uninstall the utility but want to make sure I have the correct syntax and placement of the command in the GO file. Thanks.

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16 minutes ago, Niklas said:

No need to do it in the go file. Go to Settings -> Disk settings and change "Tunable (md_write_method)" from "Auto" to "reconstruct write".

Damn, so many options and settings all over I miss them easily. Thanks for pointing that out. After I work on my media player read speed tests for a bit I'll make that change and be done with it. :)

 

Thanks!

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Just tried to install, but it's failing ssl verification.....

 

plugin: installing: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/ca.turbo/master/plugins/ca.turbo.plg
plugin: downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/ca.turbo/master/plugins/ca.turbo.plg
plugin: downloading: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/ca.turbo/master/plugins/ca.turbo.plg ... failed (SSL verification failure)
plugin: wget: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/ca.turbo/master/plugins/ca.turbo.plg download failure (SSL verification failure)

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