Raspberry Pi + IcyBox Standby????

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How do I manage the icy box connected to the raspberry

send to standby after a while without access?

On OMV Gui, goto "Storage-->>Disk" and "Storage-->>SMART" and set them as this:

Do this for both of the disks on the ICYBOX.

Just take in consideration that, if there's any access to either disk, they will take some time (not much) to spinup.

Also, you might think the standby is not working, but, if there's any access to the disks, it will always going up and down.

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Unfortunately the raspberry pi does not support "wake on lan", or am I wrong?

otherwise I could do an autoshutdown and wake him up again with wakeonlan.

You can use a RTC HAT for the Pi, but with such a low energy consumption, is it worth it?

Your call,

Raspberry Pi Power + RTC HAT | The Pi Hut

My IcyBox IB-RD3662-C31 required installation of hd-idle to suspend discs.

There is a guide in the dedicated forum section.

In this forum hd-idle troubleshooting has been discussed before. Did you use "search"?

Hey there,

Question : Did you use the buld-in RAID mode from your IcyBox or did you use the "software Raid mode" from OpenMediaVault ?

Ty.

Ice.

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OMV does not support software raid over USB. So if you're intending to RAID these disks.. you'll have to do it with the onboard on the enclosure.

It doesn't support but still possible (see below).

The "unsupported reason" is more due to the USB portable drives (or connected with adapters):

If power fails, or the cord comes out, etc, while writing, corruption will happen.

It's so unreliable that is better to not support it.

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Hey there,

Question : Did you use the buld-in RAID mode from your IcyBox or did you use the "software Raid mode" from OpenMediaVault ?

Ty.

Ice.

Using the box hardware RAID will give you a possible (bad ) issue:

In case the hardware fails, only with an exact same box (or same controller) will give you a chance of recovering the RAID.

I opt for using the box as JBOD (the 2 disks are seen seperate) and made a software BTRFS RAID 1 (via CLI, not on OMV) so I could have automatic snapshots.

This way, even if the hardware fails, I can always plug the drives on a completely new rig (either another JBOD box with different controller or just sata to USB adapters) and recover it.

OK thanks for your help.
Other question :

My Icy Box led is blinking continuously like if it is reading/accessing a file.

I'm not sure but I think it began when I tried to configure hd-idle (by the way, still not working for me, even when I followed the guides in the dedicated forum sections ...)

Do I have do worry about that blinking led ? It's strange isn't it ?

I wanted to purge hd-idle but I'm not sure I deleted everything, can you help for that ?

I didn't installed OMW yet, I wanted to configure hd-idle before.

I'm on Raspberry OS.

Thanks for your help.

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OK thanks for your help.
Other question :

My Icy Box led is blinking continuously like if it is reading/accessing a file.

I'm not sure but I think it began when I tried to configure hd-idle (by the way, still not working for me, even when I followed the guides in the dedicated forum sections ...)

Do I have do worry about that blinking led ? It's strange isn't it ?

I wanted to purge hd-idle but I'm not sure I deleted everything, can you help for that ?

I didn't installed OMW yet, I wanted to configure hd-idle before.

I'm on Raspberry OS.

Thanks for your help.

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Sorry but I don't use hd-idle (the ASMedia controller on the Icybox does all the work).

As to uninstall it, maybe 2 solutions:

1 -

If you're still starting to configure everything (nothing important is running):

Re-start and flash the img again:

Buster lite for OMV5 (version arm64)

Bullseye lite for OMV6 (version arm64)

Then, follow the guide, Install Guide for OMV5 on SBC

2 -

sudo apt remove hd-idle (is this the name of it???)

sudo apt purge --auto-remove hd-idle

Don't know if it will leave some leftovers, hence it is best to go with #1

My Icybox also acted as you say, when I started using it due to too much access to the disks for no (apparent) reason.

After trial and error, I set it as per macom instructions (don't remember where)

The "Standby" mode is very important, otherwise your disks will be spinup to make the SMART checks everytime.

Also, the disks only hold DATA.

The docker configs/volumes, etc live in a different disk (ssd).

This way, the Icybox only spins up when it is really needed (when doing a backup to it, accessing DATA on the drives, either to read or write, etc)

If by "Raspberry OS", you mean Desktop, then I don't know if the above will behave the same. (don't use it, don't want/need it)

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yes i used the search function, but i haven't found a solution here.

but i resolved the problem by myself:

the problem was apparently SMART after all, even though it was switched off in the GUI!

(even if iotop didn't look like the hdd was being accessed [nothing was shown!])

solution:

systemctl disable smartd

systemctl mask smartd

systemctl disable smartmontools

systemctl mask smartmontools

these 4 commands helped to switch off SMART permanently. after that my hard drives stay in spindown

thanks for your help

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Just scrolled up to see this:

So, you disable the SMART tools and all is good???

What happens when your disks start to fail?

How will you know or check it?