HDD doesn't switch to sleep mode when not used

OMV Version: 7.4.1-2

OS: Linux 6.6.31

Processor: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B

HDD: 10 TB Seagate Expansion Desktop

Hi,

my HDD doesn't switch to sleep mode when not have to read/write.

I have already made respective settings at Storage >> Disks >> Edit Disk:

• Advanced Power Management: 1 - Minimum power usage with standby (spindown)
• Advanced Acoustic Management: Minimum performance, minimjm acoustic output
• Spindown time: 10 minutes
• Enable write-cache: off

But that leads not to the desired result.

I also

• disabled all containers
• disabled all omv monitoring processes

The HDD doesn't make some write/read noises, I can only hear the spin of the disk or the cooling fan.

What do you think about to set the sleep time manually with sudo hdparm -S <Values> /dev/sdX?

Have you else ideas how I can force my HDD to sleep after 10 minutes inactivity?

A lot of thanks and Greets

Hey, thanks for your responses!

Quote from macom

Check if you can spindown the drive using smartctl from CLI.

sudo smartctl -s standby,now /dev/sda1 works. The HDD goes into the sleep mode ✅.

Quote from votdev

Are there any error or messages in the journal?

journalctl -u smartmontools leads to following errors (see appendix):

• In the system's table of devices NO devices found to scan
• Failed to start smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon.

journalctl -u smartctl-hdparm:

• -- No entries --

Quote from votdev

What is the output of

Code

# ls -alh /etc/smartmontools/hdparm.d/

See appendix.

Quote from votdev

What is the output of

Bash

# systemctl status smartctl-hdparm
# systemctl start smartctl-hdparm

See appendix.

Like this?

Means, that OMV is not able to manage the spindown time for my Seagate HDD and I always can do that with the official Windows app?

Hi votdev, sorry, didn't notice your reply.

Here is the full output:

xxx@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -alh /etc/smartmontools/hdparm.d/
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 26 08:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jul 11 19:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  301 May 17 18:35 README.md
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  328 Jul 26 08:05 openmediavault-xxx

xxx@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo /etc/smartmontools/hdparm.d/openmediavault-xxx
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [aarch64-linux-6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command

If this is a USB connected device, look at the various --device=TYPE variants
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

@johnvick: I connected the HDD successfully with the Windows-Seagate-app and setted the spindown time to 10 minutes, but it seems to has no effect on my linux instance.

Okay, I created a ticket. Thanks!