linux - How to set the spin down timeout on WD Green HDDs
2014-07
ManuelSchneid3r
My internal WD20EARS disk does not spin down autoamtically. I tried hdparm -S 1 (5 seconds), but nothing happens. I disabled the IntelliPower headparking with wdidle3 from the Ultimate Boot CD. hdparm -y spins down the disk.
Setup is Archlinux on a i5-4590 CPU with a MSI B85I motherboard (UEFI). The HDD is not the system disk. AHCI is set in UEFI. I followed journalctl -f | grep /dev/sdb, the disk is not used somehow.
Are there any possibilities to enable the automatic spindown?
smartctl -a output:
smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.15.1-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green (AF)
Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00J2GB0
Serial Number: WD-WCAYY0226656
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 25a25795a
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 2.000.398.934.016 bytes [2,00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Sat Jun 21 15:04:37 2014 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (38760) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 442) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 196 161 021 Pre-fail Always - 7175
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1441
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 4723
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 911
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 245
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 176 176 000 Old_age Always - 74456
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 110 094 000 Old_age Always - 42
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 4187 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Answers
This HDD for some reason interprets hdparm -S setting differently than expected.
Normally if you specify hdparm -S value in 1-240 range, it results in 5s times the value spindown timeout. There is no guarantee though that it will work exactly same way for all HDDs and WD20EARS happens to be one of the exceptions.
I was able to make it spindown in 10min by specifying hdparm -S 3. I found the fix in this post.
Related Question
hard drive - Diagnosing Windows / HDD / RAID0 failure
user54361
My machine is as follows:
- Pair of hard disks in RAID0, ATA Hitachi HDT72505
- nVidia motherboard, "M51"?
Windows XP refused to boot:
- Booting normally results in hanging during the Windows loading screen
- Booting in safe mode, it is able to reach the login screen. Logging in results in hanging.
Using the Windows XP installation CD:
- Does not detect any of the hard disks
- If an external HD is plugged in, then the CD will mount that HD while using the Recovery Console
Luckily, I have a DVD of Kubuntu 9.10.
fdisk -l shows this output:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc0cfc0cf Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xfff7fff7 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
Note that there is no device shown under /dev/sdb. Kubuntu did not automatically mount the hard disk.
Trying to do: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows results in mount complaining that ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sda1': No such file or directory
The Kubuntu installer cannot determine how much of the hard disk is used by the NTFS partition, either.
I am currently running: smartctl --test=long /dev/sda but am not sure what the output will mean
Update:
This is the output of dmraid -ay -vvvv -dddd
WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdc. NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdd NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sde NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdf NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdg NOTICE: /dev/sdh: asr discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: ddf1 discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: hpt37x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: hpt45x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: isw discovering DEBUG: not isw at -522494976 DEBUG: isw trying hard coded -2115 offset. DEBUG: not isw at -523576832 NOTICE: /dev/sdh: jmicron discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: lsi discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: nvidia discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: pdc discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: sil discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdh: via discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: asr discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: ddf1 discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt37x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt45x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: isw discovering DEBUG: not isw at 1891654656 DEBUG: isw trying hard coded -2115 offset. DEBUG: not isw at 1890572800 NOTICE: /dev/sdb: jmicron discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: lsi discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: nvidia discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: nvidia metadata discovered NOTICE: /dev/sdb: pdc discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: sil discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: asr discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: ddf1 discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt37x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt45x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: isw discovering DEBUG: not isw at 1891654656 DEBUG: isw trying hard coded -2115 offset. DEBUG: not isw at 1890572800 NOTICE: /dev/sda: jmicron discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: lsi discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: nvidia discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: nvidia metadata discovered NOTICE: /dev/sda: pdc discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: sil discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: via discovering DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_ijdbffag DEBUG: _find_set: not found nvidia_ijdbffag DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_ijdbffag DEBUG: _find_set: not found nvidia_ijdbffag NOTICE: added /dev/sdb to RAID set "nvidia_ijdbffag" DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_dacifgcg DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_dacifgcg DEBUG: _find_set: not found nvidia_dacifgcg DEBUG: _find_set: not found nvidia_dacifgcg DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_dacifgcg DEBUG: _find_set: not found nvidia_dacifgcg NOTICE: added /dev/sda to RAID set "nvidia_dacifgcg" DEBUG: checking nvidia device "/dev/sdb" DEBUG: set status of set "nvidia_ijdbffag" to 16 DEBUG: checking nvidia device "/dev/sda" DEBUG: set status of set "nvidia_dacifgcg" to 16 RAID set "nvidia_ijdbffag" already active INFO: Activating linear raid set "nvidia_ijdbffag" RAID set "nvidia_dacifgcg" already active INFO: Activating linear raid set "nvidia_dacifgcg" NOTICE: discovering partitions on "nvidia_ijdbffag" NOTICE: /dev/mapper/nvidia_ijdbffag: dos discovering NOTICE: /dev/mapper/nvidia_ijdbffag: dos metadata discovered NOTICE: created partitioned RAID set(s) for /dev/mapper/nvidia_ijdbffag NOTICE: discovering partitions on "nvidia_dacifgcg" NOTICE: /dev/mapper/nvidia_dacifgcg: dos discovering NOTICE: /dev/mapper/nvidia_dacifgcg: dos metadata discovered DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_dacifgcg1 DEBUG: _find_set: not found nvidia_dacifgcg1 NOTICE: created partitioned RAID set(s) for /dev/mapper/nvidia_dacifgcg RAID set "nvidia_dacifgcg1" already active INFO: Activating partition raid set "nvidia_dacifgcg1" WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "nvidia_ijdbffag" DEBUG: freeing device "nvidia_ijdbffag", path "/dev/sdb" DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "nvidia_dacifgcg" DEBUG: freeing device "nvidia_dacifgcg", path "/dev/sda" DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "nvidia_dacifgcg1" DEBUG: freeing device "nvidia_dacifgcg1", path "/dev/mapper/nvidia_dacifgcg"
This is the output of dmraid -r
/dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_ijdbffag", linear, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_dacifgcg", linear, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0
This is the output of smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Smartctl open device: /dev/sda1 failed: No such file or directory
root@ubuntu:~# smartctl --all /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Hitachi Deskstar T7K500
Device Model: Hitachi HDT725050VLA360
Serial Number: VFK401R424LAJK
Firmware Version: V56OA7EA
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 1
Local Time is: Tue Nov 2 02:39:57 2010 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 117) The previous self-test completed having
the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (8389) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 140) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 097 097 016 Pre-fail Always - 196612
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 137 137 024 Pre-fail Always - 287 (Average 441)
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1086
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 001 001 005 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 1885
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 099 099 067 Pre-fail Always - 1
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 12937
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1075
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1797
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1797
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 187 187 000 Old_age Always - 32 (Lifetime Min/Max 18/43)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2120
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 50% 12937 621063894
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
This is the output of smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360
Serial Number: GEB531RE00M21B
Firmware Version: GM4OA50E
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Tue Nov 2 02:41:11 2010 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (7854) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 131) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 131 131 054 Pre-fail Offline - 147
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 161 161 024 Pre-fail Always - 222 (Average 256)
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1011
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 131 131 020 Pre-fail Offline - 29
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 12930
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1008
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1747
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1747
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 214 214 000 Old_age Always - 28 (Lifetime Min/Max 17/39)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Related Answers
Moab
Being able to almost login to windowsXP does not sound like a failed drive in a raid0. When I have seen failed raid0 arrays there is no booting (hardware).
For the liveCD of Kubuntu, the proper driver (module) is not being loaded for the raid0 and Kubuntu is trying to read sda and sdb as separate drives. Sda is "working" since it has a MBR and sdb is failing since it does not. Your not able to mount /dev/sda1 since half of the data for your NTFS volume is on sdb which, is not being read.
How is the Raid0 being done? (software or hardware)
psusi
Clearly one of the drives is failing. You can't mount just one of the drives since it only contains part of the data; you have to mount the whole array, which is /dev/mapper/nvidia_ijdbffag1.