How do you turn OFF auto HDD spin-down?

Grogster · 3. Dezember 2018

Howdy.

I have an HC2 setup with a 4TB WD Red drive, and everything is working, but OMV is still spinning-down the drive after about 2 minutes, despite my telling OMV NOT to do this.

DISKS/dev/sda/
Advanced Power Management: 254 - Maximum performance, maximum power
Automatic Acoustic Management: Maximum performance, maximum acoustic output
Spindown time: 330 minutes.

Yet, OMV is still spinning down the drive after about two minutes of no activity. I really need the drive to stay alive and spinning 24/7, as all the start/stop cycles are not good for a NAS drive running 24/7.....

Can anyone offer any pointers as to what else I need to change?

Adoby · 3. Dezember 2018

You update/reflash the SATA firmware and specify the new spindown time then. If you set spindown to 0 it is disabled.

Also note that some harddrives have problems with hdparm. If you set ANY of the physical disk properties in OMV, then hdparm tries to set them and disks may fail to mount. Or even unmount spontaneously. Some drives are fine. Your drive seems to be in between. Works mostly but ignore change spindown settings.

I recommend that you disable all of the physical disk properties. Just to be safe and to avoid that hdparm tries to change settings on your HDD, and possibly fail.

I have set my HDDs to spindown after 30 minutes. I don't think spindown/spinup cause any harm to my HDDs. But it may be that bad hdparm settings and/or old SATA firmware in combination with some HDDs spindown noisily and age prematurely according to SMART. After I flashed SATA firmware and disabled any settings in physical disk properties this problem went away. Now my HDDs spin down fine and reduce power needed and runs cooler.

https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-xu4/software/jms578_fw_update

Wdavery · 14. Februar 2019

Hey Adoby, I'm hoping you can help me here.
I ended up here trying to find why my disk spun down every two minutes and that firmware update looks like the solution.

However, I cannot get it to run following the instructions.

I've gotten so far as actually running: ./JMS578FwUpdate -v
but end up with an error of : -bash: ./JMS578FwUpdate: Permission denied

then I try the same, but with sudo and get: sudo: unable to execute ./JMS578FwUpdate: Permission denied

I also tried: bash ./JMS578FwUpdate -v
and it said: JMS578FwUpdate: JMS578FwUpdate: cannot execute binary file

Which is the closest I've gotten. I've tried a different, clean install of OMV, and no difference.

gderf · 14. Februar 2019

Is the executable bit set on that file?

Wdavery · 14. Februar 2019

I tried running chmod +x on the file if that's what you mean

macom · 14. Februar 2019

Is your user member of the sudo group?

Wdavery · 14. Februar 2019

I've tried it;
over ssh as root
over ssh as user with sudo group
shell-in-a-box as root

macom · 14. Februar 2019

Just tried on my HC-2. Works.

What is the output of ls -l in that directory?

Mine is

Code

total 4648
-rwxr-xr-x 1 macom users 4130828 Apr 19  2018 JMS578FwUpdate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 macom users  519032 Nov  1  2017 JMS578FwUpdate.v1.00
-rw-r--r-- 1 macom users   50688 Dec  5  2017 JMS578_Hardkernel_v173.01.00.01.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 macom users   50688 Nov  1  2017 JMS578-v0.1.0.5.bin

In that directory execute
sudo ./JMS578FwUpdate -v

Wdavery · 14. Februar 2019

Code

total 4648  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4130828 Apr 19 2018 JMS578FwUpdate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 519032 Nov 1 2017 JMS578FwUpdate.v1.00
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50688 Dec 5 2017 JMS578_Hardkernel_v173.01.00.01.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50688 Nov 1 2017 JMS578-v0.1.0.5.bin

Where did you run it from? Root SSH?

Also where are you storing the firmware file?

macom · 14. Februar 2019

You posted while I was editing my last post

In that directory execute
sudo ./JMS578FwUpdate -v

macom · 14. Februar 2019

Zitat von Wdavery

Where did you run it from? Root SSH?

Also where are you storing the firmware file?

From the directory. SSH as user "macom".
In the home directory of the user "macom"

Wdavery · 14. Februar 2019

Oops! Thanks for helping me out by the way.

That gives sudo: unable to execute ./JMS578FwUpdate: Permission denied

macom · 14. Februar 2019

Try to login as root and skip sudo.

Wdavery · 14. Februar 2019

-bash: ./JMS578FwUpdate: Permission denied

Just to cover my bases here: I'm running the file off of a USB stick, in the same directory as the home folder is.
Also accessing the file from /sharedfolders/USBDrive/ could that be the problem?

There is a drive connected over SATA, unmounted

Adoby · 14. Februar 2019

Sharedfolders is mounted noexec.

Place the folder with the firmwarefiles in your home directory and execute it there.

If you login as root you can use the /root folder.

Wdavery · 14. Februar 2019

Saw your post there Adoby and you were exactly right.
Copied the directory to the internal storage and it's working as it's supposed to know.
I had no idea the shared folders were no exec

Thanks to everyone! I'm off to update some firmware!

gderf · 14. Februar 2019

Zitat von Wdavery

I had no idea the shared folders were no exec

It's not a shared folders limitation. All drives other than the drive OMV is installed to are by default mounted noexec.

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