Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-28 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:55:06 +0100, Lou wrote: > Please check the wdc link [1] I gave you again, WD20EARS is on the list. > The wiki article can't keep up all the time with newer green series > coming out. Ups, my fault. Thank you very much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-27 Thread Lou
Hello Ramon, Please check the wdc link [1] I gave you again, WD20EARS is on the list. The wiki article can't keep up all the time with newer green series coming out. [1] http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5357 Regards Lou Ramon Hofer wrote: Sorry, one more question to the wd

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:39:16 +0100, Lou wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:14:31 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> Maybe this is important: >> I use Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, hdparm v9.32, the drive sdc is a WDC >> WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and the mainboard an ASUS P7P55D. >> >> >> > It's very good you menti

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks alot for all the infos. Very helpful! I'll try that this evening :-) On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:57:03 +0100, Lou wrote: > Maybe you can choose a solution where you unmount the array before you > put them to sleep, just to be on the save side? I never used this, since > I prefer to shutdown a

Re: Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-26 Thread Lou
Ramon Hofer wrote: Wasn't able to have a closer look at the links but it seems as if I had to use Windows to run WDIDLE3.exe to change a firmware setting. I assume I can do this on an other PC and then move the disc back to the server? Actually this is an MS-DOS binary, which might complicat

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-26 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:39:16 +0100, Lou wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:14:31 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> Maybe this is important: >> I use Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, hdparm v9.32, the drive sdc is a WDC >> WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and the mainboard an ASUS P7P55D. >> >> >> > It's very good you menti

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Lou
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:14:31 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Maybe this is important: I use Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, hdparm v9.32, the drive sdc is a WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and the mainboard an ASUS P7P55D. It's very good you mention this - the WD Green series is a pain in the ass for linux users

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:58:33 +0100, Lou wrote: > On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> Btw: As you didn't write anything else hdparm should have no problem >> spinning down sata drives? >> >> Do you know if I can check the hdparm setting somewhere? Like hdparm -C >> to show me the spind

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Lou
On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Ramon Hofer wrote: Btw: As you didn't write anything else hdparm should have no problem spinning down sata drives? Do you know if I can check the hdparm setting somewhere? Like hdparm -C to show me the spindown setting? It depends on the drive - there is hdparm -I /dev

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:19:28 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:13 +0100, Lou wrote: > >> Hallo Ramon, > > Thanks for your reply Lou! > > >> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to >>

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:13 +0100, Lou wrote: > Hallo Ramon, Thanks for your reply Lou! > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to > >241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. > > >To

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Lou
Hallo Ramon, On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to >241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. >To speed up testing I have set spindown_tim = 1 but the drives still >stays active... >Can I ch

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 > which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. To speed up testing I have set spindown_tim = 1 but the drives still stays active... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'd like to spin down all my sata hdds except the system drive with hdparm. Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. When I put the discs to sleep manually with sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sdc it works. But