[A110] How to change the HDD standby time

[gregg098]

Is there anyway to make the hard drive stay on longer before turning off? It seems that whenever I get a phone call for a few minutes, the hard drive shuts off. It seems like it adds a lot of unnecessary wear. Is this possible?

[tomb528]

I just received my NMT yesterday and this is the only thing that has been annoying me.

It only seems to last about 5 minutes and then turns off. Annoying if your researching something to test out on the NMT and you have to power the drive up again and then it goes off again and then on again.. you get my point

No simple hack/ix for this?

Something like 30 mins of idle and then standby would be great!

[Jolt82]

Hi ,

I don't know how familiar are you with linux /Pc's but here is the solution :

1) Using ftp connect to your PCH
2) Download start_app.sh from root
3) Insert new line after: #M_A_R_K_E_R_do_not_remove_me
cd /sbin/ && ./hdparm -S 241 /dev/hda &
4) Save the changes
5) Upload modified start_app.sh using ftp
6) Restart PCH.

The change will be applied every time even if you do a restart or unplug the device.

BTW: -S 241 means = set standby timer to 30min

Regards,
Zsolt

[gregg098]

(02-15-2009 09:43 PM)Jolt82 Wrote:  Hi ,

I don't know how familiar are you with linux /Pc's but here is the solution :

1) Using ftp connect to your PCH
2) Download start_app.sh from root
3) Insert new line after: #M_A_R_K_E_R_do_not_remove_me
cd /sbin/ && ./hdparm -S 241 /dev/hda &
4) Save the changes
5) Upload modified start_app.sh using ftp
6) Restart PCH.

The change will be applied every time even if you do a restart or unplug the device.

BTW: -S 241 means = set standby timer to 30min

Regards,
Zsolt

Thanks

[tomb528]

Thats superb.. I will try this out later today.

Thanks!

[Jolt82]

Other timeings that can be used:
-S 0 = OFF (No standby)
-S 60 = 5min (Default used by PCH )
-S 120 = 10min
-S 180 = 15min
-S 240 = 20min
-S 241 = 30min
-S 242 = 1hour
-S 250 = 5hours

Regards,
Zsolt

[cpbox]

Jolt82

I use FileZilla to connect to the PCH, ftp connection with user ftpuser and its password, and can't see this file..
I forced FileZilla to show hidden files, I can see some hidden folders (.btpd .nzbget .transmission...) but still nothing like this file.. and I think I looked through the whole structure..

Am I missing something ?

Thanks in advance for your help !

Cris

[Jolt82]

Should be there somewhere in root. If not, you can create one by yourself:

1. Create a file named : start_app.sh
2. Paste inside :
#!/bin/sh
#

#M_A_R_K_E_R_do_not_remove_me
cd /sbin/ && ./hdparm -S 120 /dev/hda &

exit 0
3. Of course you can change to desired standby time
4. Upload the file to root.
5. Restart PCH and check if new setting are applied or not.

Regards,
Zsolt

[journey4712]

Wanted to add a note that just creating a start_app.sh file wont get it executed on boot. To properly create a start_app.sh that does get installed on boot install a software package that uses it(like lundmans telnet, torrentwatch, tvnzb, etc.)

The installers for those applications change some files on a part of the hard disk you dont usually see to enable that script to run at boot time.

journey4712

[cpbox]

(02-24-2009 12:29 PM)journey4712 Wrote:  Wanted to add a note that just creating a start_app.sh file wont get it executed on boot. To properly create a start_app.sh that does get installed on boot install a software package that uses it(like lundmans telnet, torrentwatch, tvnzb, etc.)

The installers for those applications change some files on a part of the hard disk you dont usually see to enable that script to run at boot time.

journey4712

I had also found hdparm line to put the hard-disk in a Quiet mode but if the file does not get picked up, not much point

I do not use the PCH for anything else than playing movie files from the hard-disk of via myhome...
What can I do?

Thanks for your help folks !

[journey4712]

Download and install telnetd from here. Delete(or move out of the way) any start_app.sh you created yourself before install. After it has been installed you can remove the telnetd line from start_app.sh and you will have no extra software being run on your NMT, and you will be able to insert boot commands like disabling standby

journey4712

[lordy]

How do all the hdparm tie in with the screen saver settings? I've noticed my drive spins down with the screen saver (A100 though)

[journey4712]

The screen saver spindown I believe is done by mono directly calling the hdparm program. When mono starts the screensaver it issues the command 'hdparm -y /dev/hda'. If you want to disable that just remove the hdparm symlink and use '/bin/busybox hdparm' whenever you need to use hdparm in a script

journey4712

[Fork]

This didn't work for me. I added the line in the place suggested and restarted the PCH (proper restart - using the physical power switch at the back of the unit). The hard drive still spins-down after five minutes.

I know that the modified start_app.sh is being called at startup because I've installed Lundman's telnet and that is definitely kicking-in at startup (I've seen the line in start_app.sh, and I've verified that I can telnet to the PCH when it starts-up).

Any idea on how to trouble-shoot this?

Thanks,

Fork.

[Jolt82]

Check this tread also:
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=17457

Regards,
Zsolt