In the past I’ve had to upgrade the firmware then I can spin down my sas drives.  I’m guessing it’s  just a flag that isn’t set. But I got a much larger drive now for parity and can’t find any new firmware for it.  Does anyone know sas seagate drives and how to allow them to spin down?  The model is ST6000NM0285 and I can’t find any firmware for it.  No matter what I try I can’t get it to spin down. It’s on a m1015 lsa 2008 controller.

Unraid can't currently spin down SAS devices.

I have 8 seagate sas 3 and 4 tb drives that spin down fine on 005 firmware. Is there a parameter I can check to see if it’s set right? Using m1015 in it mode

4 minutes ago, Timbiotic said:

I have 8 seagate sas 3 and 4 tb drives that spin down fine on 005 firmware

Unraid can spin them down? If yes first time I hear that with SAS devices.

Yes I just had to upgrade the firmware on them. 

 

ST33000650SS - 3tb

ST4000NM0023 - 4tb

both work fine with “0005” firmware

 

ST6000NM0285 - 6tb

is not spinning down and I can’t find any other firmware than the ”ef02” that came on it.

 

 

I’m wondering if it’s a controller issue.  From the wiki it even says it supports sas spin down on my controller but only mentions 3tb drives

 

This cards are rebranded LSI 9240-8i cards. They can be cross-flashed with the 9211-8i firmware.

IBM ServeRAID M1015

Intel RS2WC080

Dell Perc H310 dedicated instructions will be included in the wiki later on

Dell Perc H200 dedicated instructions will be included in the wiki later on

Lenovo RAID 500 dedicated instructions will be included in the wiki later on

20.10.1-0037 (APP-2.120.54-1235) / 15-APR-11

Only iMR mode available.

LSI MegaRAID SAS2008 Controller.zip - 5.32 MB (Windows)

Linux Driver: megaraid_sas - supports the LSI SAS1078, SAS1078 GEN2, SAS1079 GEN2, SAS0073 and SAS0071 chipsets. Though is is an old version indeed. (Thanks to "BRiT"s prior post)

unRAID Support: Driver not included at this point.

Drive Spin Down support: YES (UPDATE: Added as of 5.0Beta7)

Drive Temp Readings: YES

3TB Drive Support with this card: YES (UPDATE: 5.0Beta7 added 3TB Drive support)

Update: Convert your LSI MegaRAID controller card with LSI SAS2008 chipset to a Plain SAS2008 controller card (IT or IR mode), will look and feel like a LSI SAS9211-8i, and will be ready to use with unRAID (BIG THANKS to KKM for creating the empty.bin, so you dont need to have to worry about which sbr to obtain and use.)

IBM ServeRAID M1015 (tested successfully)

Intel RS2WC080 (tested successfully)

LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P10).zip - 6.38 MB (DOS, via bootable usb key)

LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11).zip - 5.87 MB (DOS, via bootable usb key)

LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P20).zip - 4.1 MB (FREEDOS, via bootable usb key)

Please read the __READMEFIRST.txt file so you are clear as to all the steps and why it is important not to skip any steps.

Converting it follows all details in the post above for the LSI SAS2008 chipset (firmware release, support, etc.)

Ok I found I can spin down the disk with this command sg_start —stop /dev/sde 

 

im wondering if there is an APM setting I need to change.  Unfortunately hdparam doesn’t seem to work and I’m not real familiar with sg tools

 

 

SAS spindown is being looked at for a future Unraid release, though don't know if it will make it for the next one.

Hopefully it wont mess with anything else but I see that he is working with sdparm in upcoming releases. 

 

gonna try this to manually set the standby spin down for now will update if it works  https://zackreed.me/spindown-sas-disks/

that method didnt work it appears only sg utils will spin down this disk. or parity is sending "in use flag?"