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#1 2009-01-05 22:17:43

sp000n
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Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Two days ago I upgraded from 1.04 to 1.06.  My disks haven't stopped running since.  There is no network traffic whatsoever involved and I don't even know how to start troubleshooting this issue.

Any suggestions?

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#2 2009-01-06 02:45:25

jeangb
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Have you done a restart or eventually a shutdown with power switch ?

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#3 2009-01-06 05:41:42

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Do you have a Seagate hard drive by any chance?  I was looking through the forum on the dlink site and on this one, it looks like Seagate hard drives are spinning back up or staying on with firmware 1.06.  I had no problems with 1.05 but with 1.06 my hard drives stop spinning after five minutes like I have it set, then start spinning again for no reason and this cycle goes on and on.

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#4 2009-01-06 06:03:09

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Fair questions.  I've done shutdowns via the WWW interface, holding the button down for a few seconds and also the back switch.  My drives are identical Western Digital drives.

Thanks for brainstorming this with me, guys.

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#5 2009-01-06 06:14:41

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

alb wrote:

Do you have a Seagate hard drive by any chance?  I was looking through the forum on the dlink site and on this one, it looks like Seagate hard drives are spinning back up or staying on with firmware 1.06.  I had no problems with 1.05 but with 1.06 my hard drives stop spinning after five minutes like I have it set, then start spinning again for no reason and this cycle goes on and on.

I do have a Seagate and it's stop spinning at the time schedule.

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#6 2009-01-06 09:41:16

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

I'm really stumped on this.  My drives continue to run.  Moreover, the cooling fan doesn't seem to be coming on to save the day.  Is it possible to revert to an older Firmware version?

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#7 2009-01-06 11:52:47

deurges
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

I just wanted to add that I experience a similar problem.

My disks does not spin all the time continously but even when idle, my discs will spin up again after some time at random.
I have turned off lldp, ddns, timeserver, ftp, itunes and upnp and this still occurs. I believe it is the bittorrent client that is causing this but have no knowledge how to check or fix it.

And yes, you can revert back to a older firmware.

I have two WD 500gb disks set up in RAID1 mode, hdd timeout 10min.

deurges

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#8 2009-01-06 15:42:45

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

There goes the Seagate theory.  I have one Seagate 500 Gb and one Western Digital 500 Gb drive set up as Raid 1.  I have also turned off lldp, ddns, timeserver, itunes, upnp, but I have ftp on.  Nothing is in my bittorrent folders right now, but the client is installed.  HDD timeout 5 minutes.

Where can I get 1.05 from?  The file doesn't come up when I try to download from dlink's website : http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=509

I haven't changed the configuration since 1.05 and I didn't have the disks starting then spinning down issue back then.

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#9 2009-01-06 19:54:52

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Rather than wait for dlink Great Britain to post FW 1.06, I downloaded and installed it from the uSA site. 
This is my experience
FW 1.04 and FW 1.05, both drives sleep
FW 1.06 - slot one spins all the time - slot two sleeps
Slot      Vendor      Model          Size
1     Seagate     ST3500630AS     500 G    
2     SAMSUNG     HD103UJ         1000 G    

I am confident when the British version is released (going on previous form around late February 2009), this constant spinning problem will have been fixed by dlink. 

Biscotte

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#10 2009-01-06 23:56:57

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

for alb:

try this link instead: http://support.dlink.com/products/view. … d=DNS-323#

Biscotte: As far as I have understood from previous discussions and posts, the FW for DNS-323 is not country specific. It would be a surprise to me that GB releases a different 1.06 FW.

I'm living in Norway and has since FW 1.05 used the USA releases. Officially the scandinavian support pages only show 1.04 as the latest with 1.05 on their FTP site. I guess that's just poorly updated web pages - nothing else. I would believe the case to be similar with GB support pages, if you have not been told otherwise.

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#11 2009-01-07 01:52:34

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

deurges wrote:

for alb:

try this link instead: http://support.dlink.com/products/view. … d=DNS-323#

Biscotte: As far as I have understood from previous discussions and posts, the FW for DNS-323 is not country specific. It would be a surprise to me that GB releases a different 1.06 FW.

I'm living in Norway and has since FW 1.05 used the USA releases. Officially the scandinavian support pages only show 1.04 as the latest with 1.05 on their FTP site. I guess that's just poorly updated web pages - nothing else. I would believe the case to be similar with GB support pages, if you have not been told otherwise.

deurges

That's not entirely correct - I believe if you check you'll find there's a different version of the firmware available for China - with a Chinese language interface - and if I'm not mistaken, USA & Australia have different versions of the 1.06 firmware available on their support sites.

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#12 2009-01-07 14:07:42

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

I noticed when doing some syslogging that the drives are put to sleep but there is two cronjobs waking up the disks.

*/10 * * * * /usr/sbin/offl_chk two &
*/60 * * * * /usr/sbin/getdhcp&

In earlier releases getdhcp was running much more frequently. However they seem to have changed that.
Anyway as I upgraded from 1.03 I have never seen offl_chk before. Is this new for 1.06 or was it there in 1.05 as well?

Both of these entries will wake up the drives.

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#13 2009-01-07 14:20:35

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

I seem to remember someone asking about getdhcp before - and I believe switching to a static ip stops it from being run.

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#14 2009-01-08 00:45:27

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

fordem wrote:

deurges wrote:

for alb:

try this link instead: http://support.dlink.com/products/view. … d=DNS-323#

Biscotte: As far as I have understood from previous discussions and posts, the FW for DNS-323 is not country specific. It would be a surprise to me that GB releases a different 1.06 FW.

I'm living in Norway and has since FW 1.05 used the USA releases. Officially the scandinavian support pages only show 1.04 as the latest with 1.05 on their FTP site. I guess that's just poorly updated web pages - nothing else. I would believe the case to be similar with GB support pages, if you have not been told otherwise.

deurges

That's not entirely correct - I believe if you check you'll find there's a different version of the firmware available for China - with a Chinese language interface - and if I'm not mistaken, USA & Australia have different versions of the 1.06 firmware available on their support sites.

Ok Fordem, I'm really not certain. I understand that the chinese version is different due to language and Astralia setteled with an older beta of the 1.06 FW. USA ended up on beta 65 and Australia on beta 62. (?)

Anyways.. we'll see what GB does.. smile

deurges

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#15 2009-01-08 00:47:48

deurges
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

frodo wrote:

I noticed when doing some syslogging that the drives are put to sleep but there is two cronjobs waking up the disks.

*/10 * * * * /usr/sbin/offl_chk two &
*/60 * * * * /usr/sbin/getdhcp&

In earlier releases getdhcp was running much more frequently. However they seem to have changed that.
Anyway as I upgraded from 1.03 I have never seen offl_chk before. Is this new for 1.06 or was it there in 1.05 as well?

Both of these entries will wake up the drives.

Offline check two; could be the new UPS support?

I would like to disable that, since my powerware UPS clearly is not supported anyway. When plugged in the DNS freezes entirely until unplugged again. sad

deurges

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#16 2009-01-08 02:04:10

frodo
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Dont think it is:

/mnt/debian/ffp/var/log # offl_chk
Usage : two : check 2 bays NAS
        four : check 4 bays NAS

It touches the disks. If you do strings on it you will find patterns like this:

/mnt/debian/ffp/var/log # strings /usr/sbin/offl_chk | grep HD
mount /dev/%s /mnt/HD_%c2
touch /mnt/HD_a4/awake_call /mnt/HD_b4/awake_call
rm /mnt/HD_a4/awake_call /mnt/HD_b4/awake_call
touch /mnt/HD_a4/awake_call /mnt/HD_b4/awake_call /mnt/HD_c4/awake_call /mnt/HD_d4/awake_call
rm /mnt/HD_a4/awake_call /mnt/HD_b4/awake_call /mnt/HD_c4/awake_call /mnt/HD_d4/awake_call

Which seems to obviosly wake up the drives... Something todo with trying to detect broken drives?

More strings here:

mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb2&
/tmp/wait_sync
rm /tmp/wait_sync
device a off line
echo 0 > /tmp/wait_sync
mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda2&
System formatting , needn't to check
Check Raid1 !
device %s off line

Makes you wonder...

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#17 2009-01-08 02:05:14

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

One wonders if it is safe to disabled?!

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#18 2009-01-08 02:42:28

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Is this a hijacking?  I have no idea what you guys are talking about and can't seem to relate it to disks that won't stop running.

Any other thoughts out there on the original issue?

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#19 2009-01-08 14:17:38

frodo
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

sp000n wrote:

Is this a hijacking?  I have no idea what you guys are talking about and can't seem to relate it to disks that won't stop running.

Any other thoughts out there on the original issue?

We are talking the original issue. What keeps the disks spinning is a process called offl_chk.

This process is invoked by cron. If you are not familiar with linux and fun_plug I guess this could sound a strange but this is what is inside your box.

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#20 2009-01-09 05:39:17

vinaymal
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Read a lot but my first time posting. Feels good to be able to contribute.

I had this same issue. It has something to do with the RAID1. I had 1.05 and no issues with spinning down. Then in 1.06 it would go down for 2 mins every 10 then spin back up. I disconnected the ethernet cable and it still did it so that told me it was something in the box not the router causing it to sping back up. Then I changed to 2 standard disks and got rid of RAID1 and it stays in power save mode now till I use it again.

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#21 2009-01-09 07:50:19

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

I'm using RAID1 and 1.06 and have no issue with drives spinning down. In fact, they have been spun down for over a day as I have not been accessing the box.

Using 2 WD Green 500G drives and a 10 minute timeout.

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#22 2009-01-09 15:41:13

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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

I'm also using RAID1 and 1.06 with no spindown issues - that go down for 2 mins every 10 mins and then spin back up is reminescent of the old "uncleared print job in the spool file issue" where the unit would try to spool up every 10 minutes until you cleared the spool file, so reformatting the drives, which would have deleted anything in the \.lpd folder, would have exactly the same effect.

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#23 2009-01-10 01:09:36

frodo
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

I changed the cron entry on my box.
offl_chk is now only invoked once every hour. And this results in disks being spun up 1 min past the hour every hour.
At least this is an improvment.

And yes I have a RAID 1

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#24 2009-01-10 03:03:48

dudu_georgescu
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Maybe this is stupid, but how do you guys determine that the HDDs wake-up?

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#25 2009-01-10 03:07:10

dudu_georgescu
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Re: Constant disk access with Firmware v 1.06

Maybe this is stupid, but how do you guys determine that the HDDs wake-up?

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