[natty] Cannot spin down hard drives while APM_level=254
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| hdparm (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: hdparm
Some hard drives (tested with Samsung HD154UI) refuse to spin down on demand (hdparm -y and -Y options) or on inactivity timeout (-S) while the APM level (-B) is at 254. Setting it to another value (tested 255 and 253) makes the drive respect the set spindown time and spin down on demand as well.
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Old description:
On an update natty ubuntu-server installation (hdparm version 9.32-1ubuntu1) with nothing accessing the hard-drives running, I can't get them to spin down. The drives (sd[ab]) are in an LVM setup but only used for 2 data-directories, the system itself is on a USB flashstick (sdc) mounted directly:
# mount
/dev/sdc1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=
...
/dev/mapper/
/dev/mapper/
# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda1
VG Name DATA_VG
...
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb1
VG Name DATA_VG
...
hdparm -y seems to do nothing at all, while hdparm -Y seems to put the SATA links to sleep:
Jan 10 19:32:11 johny kernel: [13313.493918] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
Jan 10 19:32:11 johny kernel: [13313.506875] ata3.00: waking up from sleep
Jan 10 19:32:11 johny kernel: [13313.514994] ata3: hard resetting link
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13313.832117] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13313.845403] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13313.845439] ata3: EH complete
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13313.852572] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13313.865560] ata5.00: waking up from sleep
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13313.873618] ata5: hard resetting link
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13314.192119] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13314.205402] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jan 10 19:32:12 johny kernel: [13314.205436] ata5: EH complete
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: hdparm 9.32-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 10 19:23:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110106)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hdparm
| mlx (myxal-mxl) wrote | #1 |
| Stephen Barnes (stephenambarnes) wrote | #2 |
| mlx (myxal-mxl) wrote | #3 |
| mlx (myxal-mxl) wrote | #4 |
| mlx (myxal-mxl) wrote | #5 |
| description: | updated |
| tags: |
added: apm removed: i386 natty |
| summary: |
- [natty] Cannot spin down hard drives + [natty] Cannot spin down hard drives while APM_level=254 |
Who manufactures the drives, and what chipset is the RAID card? I was receiving the same error messages with two different Western Digital hard drives tested against two different Silicon Image SATA controllers; after replacing the Western Digitals with a Hitachi drive I had no problems. From other bug reports looking up "hard resetting link" on launchpad, it seems like the sata_sil and sata_via modules may not be playing nice with certain combinations of controllers and hard drives. I tried live CDs going back as far as 9.04 as well as the 11.04 RC2 and had the same issue when trying to write or read from the drive. Replacing the hardware was the only solution that worked.