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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    Thank you, I'll see how I go :)
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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    Ah cool. I assume you mean you have a LSI 9211-8i card running as a plain HBA and hdparm works with it? Were the drives SAS or SATA? Sounds promising if so :) I will install something other that Windows as soon as I get a chance to test. Thanks David
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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    In a normal RAID array in Windows I can see that this could cause problems as in a lot of configurations all drives might need to be awake for before the request can be handled, which could cause problems with Windows getting upset. Note that I only temporarily have windows installed to test out...
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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    I agree that it is not good to have a drive spinning up and down every few minutes. I tried to outline roughly how I would be using the drives so that I could focus on solving what I am trying to do. I think in my scenario, the opposite is true and the life of the drives will be extended and it...
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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    I just tried this and I get the same error about "Function not implemented". I could try this on something other than Windows as well as soon as I get a chance.
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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    Thanks for the info on this! I have experimented with both smartctl and hdparm and have had some success with smartctl but not hdparm. hdparm reported "HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(standby) failed: Function not implemented" I don't have the exact disks I plan to run with yet, but am testing the sleep...
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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    Hello, thanks for the reply. That was pretty much my understanding as well, however the main problem was that the Windows (or unRAID) does not even seem to be able to get the drives to sleep when connected to the card, whereas it can when they are plugged into the motherboard. Delays in my...
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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    Hello, Thanks for the reply. I coincidentally just happened to download a windows build of hdparm, however I have a ubuntu install here so I might try that instead and play around with hdparm and see what I can (or can't) make it do and will report back. David
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    LSI 9211-8i not spinning down idle drives

    Hello, This is my first post here, but I’ve found some great info here over the last few months. After hours of searching I thought I would ask for some help. I have a HP N54L Microserver with an LSI 9211-8i SAS card installed that I’m setting up as a NAS. The 9211-8i has the latest IT...
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