--- On Thu, 23/10/08, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Smartd > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Thursday, 23 October, 2008, 6:53 PM > On Donnerstag 23 Oktober 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > Probably not strictly a Gentoo issue, but as i am > running Gentoo I'll see > > if the collective knowledge here can help me! > > > > I have a strange problem with my server. All the hard > drives go to sleep > > after ~3hrs of inactivity. BUT if they happen to still > be asleep when the > > scheduled smart check takes place you can hear it > 'spin up' and just before > > you know the drive is 'up' smartd decides the > drive isn't smart capable and > > gives up. I get log entries in 'messages' and > dmesg and also smartd emails > > me to tell me the drive isn't smart capable. > > > > You get the same result if you do -a on a sleeping > drive... it says the > > drive isn't capable.. run it again.. and Bob's > your uncle. Any clues? Can > > you vary the time before it tries after a spin up? > > > > ----------------------- > > N: Jon Hardcastle > > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be > greedy when others are > > fearful.' ----------------------- > > I am not sure what your problem really is - but why > don't you exclude the > drivers in /etc/conf.d/smartd? It is a server, but i want the drive to power down if they aren't going to be used for a while.. Also the -n option only works for other kinds of checks.. not for scheduled checks. there appears to be no way to exclude drives that are sleeping from scheduled checks. I want the drives to be checked by smartd also. I just hoped there was a way of getting smartd to wait alittle longer after waking the drive up. ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.' -----------------------
