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On Donnerstag 23 Oktober 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: |
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> Probably not strictly a Gentoo issue, but as i am running Gentoo I'll see |
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> if the collective knowledge here can help me! |
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> I have a strange problem with my server. All the hard drives go to sleep |
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> after ~3hrs of inactivity. BUT if they happen to still be asleep when the |
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> scheduled smart check takes place you can hear it 'spin up' and just before |
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> you know the drive is 'up' smartd decides the drive isn't smart capable and |
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> gives up. I get log entries in 'messages' and dmesg and also smartd emails |
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> me to tell me the drive isn't smart capable. |
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> You get the same result if you do -a on a sleeping drive... it says the |
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> drive isn't capable.. run it again.. and Bob's your uncle. Any clues? Can |
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> you vary the time before it tries after a spin up? |
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> N: Jon Hardcastle |
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> E: Jon@×××××××××××.com |
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> '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are |
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> fearful.' ----------------------- |
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I am not sure what your problem really is - but why don't you exclude the |
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drivers in /etc/conf.d/smartd? |