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[hetsch]

Hello,

i have just purchased a USB 3.0 Dual 2,5" SATA Mobile RAID and so far it really works fine.
The problem is that i can't send the hdds to standby mode. They are always spinning, that's not ideal for a long lifetime as you know.

I use a Debian System and have tested the hdparm, sdparm. no success right now.
hdparm -S 10 /dev/sda1
sdparm --command=stop /dev/sda1

hdparm shows that the drives are in standby mode but the are spinning.

I use the raid system in a storage in combination with a raspberry pi.

Do i have to send a special command to the hardware raid controller JMicron? Seems that none of the standard tools ar working right out of the box.

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edit:
It seems that using hdparm -y /dev/sda1 will send only one disk to sleep.

root@XBian:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 486192 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ee283

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 2048 155647 76800 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 155648 30092287 14968320 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3 30092288 31116287 512000 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204877824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525152 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04663285

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1953525151 976761552 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
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It would be also nice to know which chipsets are built in. Is JMicron the manufacturer of the RAID chipset?

Tanks a lot, regards
Gernot