C200 HDD Spins Up and Spins Down Constantly

[anubus12]

C200 constantly spins up and down when in sleep mode (orange power button). I have SMB shares to a NAS and another PCH). My PC has the map to the C200, but it is off most of the time. I cannot determine what is actually causing the C200 to wakeup constantly.

I've tried /sbin/hdparm -S0 /dev/sda in start start_app.sh file with no affect.

Any ideas on how to either keep the drive spinning all the time or sleep forever until the power is turned on?

TIA

[jonny555]

(08-28-2012 05:06 PM)anubus12 Wrote:  C200 constantly spins up and down when in sleep mode (orange power button). I have SMB shares to a NAS and another PCH). My PC has the map to the C200, but it is off most of the time. I cannot determine what is actually causing the C200 to wakeup constantly.

I've tried /sbin/hdparm -S0 /dev/sda in start start_app.sh file with no affect.

Any ideas on how to either keep the drive spinning all the time or sleep forever until the power is turned on?

TIA

As far as I know this can be turn off it's some kind of Eco
Measure on your Hdd check your Hdd support page
Hope this helps

[corvus]

I have successfully used the HDPARM contained in OPKG.
The only file which got installed in the "sbin" folder was idle3ctl (to permanently deactivate the load/unload feature of some WD HDDs). Not working until i copied the binary in all of the "bin" folders, ran it once, cleaned up the mess and left...

[accident]

Is this somethign you could type step by step novice instructions to do? I would like to repost it in the common problems thread and there are a lot of users with laptops that can't easily do the change to teh drive.

[anubus12]

(08-28-2012 09:05 PM)corvus Wrote:  I have successfully used the HDPARM contained in OPKG.
The only file which got installed in the "sbin" folder was idle3ctl (to permanently deactivate the load/unload feature of some WD HDDs). Not working until i copied the binary in all of the "bin" folders, ran it once, cleaned up the mess and left...

Could you explain this in a bit more detail? I'm not following what you did and what files you used and from where.

Thanks!

[corvus]

It wasn´t too easy for me, too, as i never had anything to do with Linux.
First, install CSI.
Next, install OPKG from CSI.
On the Poppy, OPKG will display a HTML page with linux tools from "a" to "e". As no one ever seemed to have complained about this, it took me some time to find out that this is a bug. You get the complete list of tools via Telnet login and by increasing the Windows command line buffer to 1500 lines.
While HDPARM worked out of the box, idle3ctl needed that little trick to run.

[anubus12]

(08-30-2012 11:09 PM)corvus Wrote:  It wasn´t too easy for me, too, as i never had anything to do with Linux.
First, install CSI.
Next, install OPKG from CSI.
On the Poppy, OPKG will display a HTML page with linux tools from "a" to "e". As no one ever seemed to have complained about this, it took me some time to find out that this is a bug. You get the complete list of tools via Telnet login and by increasing the Windows command line buffer to 1500 lines.
While HDPARM worked out of the box, idle3ctl needed that little trick to run.

I have CSI installed and there is no OPKG in the applications section.

[corvus]

I´m far from home quite now, don´t know how opkg is called in CSI, but we´re talking about this tool xxxx://xxx.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=45424 .

Fill in correct letters, i´m not (yet) allowed to post links to forum threads, that´s the rules...

Unlike previous WD HDDs, the EARX won´t support APM(Advanced Power Management), so you can only set the spindown timer with HDPARM. With APM you could influence spindown and unload behaviour simultaneously.

[jonny555]

(09-01-2012 11:51 PM)corvus Wrote:  I´m far from home quite now, don´t know how opkg is called in CSI, but we´re talking about this tool xxxx://xxx.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=45424 .

Fill in correct letters, i´m not (yet) allowed to post links to forum threads, that´s the rules...

Unlike previous WD HDDs, the EARX won´t support APM(Advanced Power Management), so you can only set the spindown timer with HDPARM. With APM you could influence spindown and unload behaviour simultaneously.

Ipkg is in csi which is local 1.8 nmt

[corvus]

yep.
Confusing,huh?
And ipkg was officially renamed opkg a while ago.