USB Drive is still spinning down for me. Issue from before not fixed. about retronas HOT 13 CLOSED

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that looks to me like it failed to select a sector to read

which is probably the time your drive went to sleep, what is the sleep interval on your drive currently?

what OS is this? I am running a bunch of iterations on 64bit raspios and i cannot recreate this error with shufyet

if you are on 32bit raspios this is determined by the tools at compilation time. I'll have a think about what I can do with this in the meantime

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Value-too-large-for-defined-data-type

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I've pushed a fix for this, raspios has not compiled shuf with large file support

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You should be able to rerun the installer and start and stop the services to test it out

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@davedoc1984 have you had a chance to test if these changes correct the "Value to large" error?

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Not sure what I need to do? I now have symlinks issues where none of them are working e.g. PS3, PS2 etc which were working previously.

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I see you've opened a new issue, please restrict that conversation to that issue.

I need to know for this issue if reinstalling the hdparm service and stop/starting it allows it to run without error for you

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I have tried reinstalling HDPARM and this hasn't solved the problem.

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thanks, please confirm you did the following on the hdparm screen

• Install
• Stop
• Start

Show me the output of the service as you have done previously, so we can attempt to troubleshoot further.

Noting we need to work with your setup to come up with a solution since yours are currently the only reports of this issue and I cannot reproduce it here.

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Confirmed I did Install, Stop and Start.

This is what I now see on the HDPARM Service

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OK so the service is running successfully on your system with the changes I made, looks like I have something to tweak in the counter output.

If reading from the drive is still not preventing the drive from spinning down then my only option is to change the read interval on the timer and see if that helps which is currently every 3-5 minutes

So i'm not going to commit code changes until we've tested it on your system

Please do the following so we can decrease the interval reads are done to the drive to between 30s - 1m

sed -i 's/3m/30s/' /usr/lib/systemd/system/hdparm.timer
sed -i 's/2m/30s/' /usr/lib/systemd/system/hdparm.timer
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start hdparm.timer
systemctl start hdparm.service

This should make the service find and read a sector on a smaller intervale

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Fail I am afraid

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service works ok, as to your hdd i dont see there is anything more RetroNAS can reasonably do. We're issuing a read operation every minute and its still problematic. what drive model is it?

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If 30-45s interval reads from the drive don't keep it awake there is nothing more than we can do from the RetroNAS side we're going to close this off.

I suggest you try a different enclosure and/or hdd until you find something that works for you or contact the manufacturer about how to correctly disable sleep for whatever drive it is.

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