From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtICZ-0004r7-Rg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:39:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19FBAE04B0; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web51305.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web51305.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEE11E04B0 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 96423 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Oct 2008 08:39:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=DzTQh1HJrkMRyHFrPKVED4SV41XhKcxPNrxCTEpgzJvq4A9AR+IGVdC0nXrf5MHslBc7WPe+S1Cn+e5bczxPXZ50a72tX1n0w5mVaXeW5Cr1jnrxBxq0wZuE73hcgJWBB1py1zUYJA4xxr2P+Epll6+EaeKBanNvv+1j56O9wDY=; X-YMail-OSG: CYq9BGwVM1nVkUFvQHVk_7tGT1ADpPbJ5ifimtxTAL5M..2sQiRVG_4LmcXZdDVnQUAdCabvsvK2b28ICYiDbu98Dxq99201coAy_EggBm2z.CIUU9lrbjTbg90MwSkMd2hCE63GCKlR16qr24ZIraMZl9RBLB8Y34Q.JT9qrhOMVgLwgGNVuzImsg-- Received: from [193.114.208.194] by web51305.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:39:20 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.247.3 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:39:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Hardcastle Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Smartd To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200810231953.06426.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <85445.96167.qm@web51305.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0789502b-95e7-42e8-8ef6-87a4ff48f80e X-Archives-Hash: d13844f1a1210607f560a9d33139786d --- On Thu, 23/10/08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > From: Volker Armin Hemmann > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Smartd > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Thursday, 23 October, 2008, 6:53 PM > On Donnerstag 23 Oktober 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > Probably not strictly a Gentoo issue, but as i am > running Gentoo I'll see > > if the collective knowledge here can help me! > > > > I have a strange problem with my server. All the hard > drives go to sleep > > after ~3hrs of inactivity. BUT if they happen to still > be asleep when the > > scheduled smart check takes place you can hear it > 'spin up' and just before > > you know the drive is 'up' smartd decides the > drive isn't smart capable and > > gives up. I get log entries in 'messages' and > dmesg and also smartd emails > > me to tell me the drive isn't smart capable. > > > > You get the same result if you do -a on a sleeping > drive... it says the > > drive isn't capable.. run it again.. and Bob's > your uncle. Any clues? Can > > you vary the time before it tries after a spin up? > > > > ----------------------- > > N: Jon Hardcastle > > E: Jon@eHardcastle.com > > '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be > greedy when others are > > fearful.' ----------------------- >=20 > I am not sure what your problem really is - but why > don't you exclude the=20 > drivers in /etc/conf.d/smartd? It is a server, but i want the drive to power down if they aren't going to = be used for a while.. Also the -n option only works for other kinds of chec= ks.. not for scheduled checks. there appears to be no way to exclude drives= that are sleeping from scheduled checks. I want the drives to be checked by smartd also. I just hoped there was a wa= y of getting smartd to wait alittle longer after waking the drive up. ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: Jon@eHardcastle.com '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful= .' -----------------------