Hardware • Suspended disk immediately spinning up again

Hey folks,

I have a problem with one of my external usb disks. I have two different 8TB Seagate disks (ext4) on my homeserver (debian 12) and I managed to get the first one running and suspending like a charm - with some support of this fine forum in the following thread: viewtopic.php?p=810322#p810322

So I did the same things for the second drive and it looks like it should work the same way - but it doesn't. I added the quiks an now it reports all the expected data from hdparm and smartctl as expected. But when ever I use any hdparm command to suspend the disk (like hdparm -y), it spinns down and immediately up again. I don't know why. I read some stuff about btrace, but since I am a noob, I don't figured out, how to find threads that keep the disk active. Also it is not after some minutes, it is just immediately.
I already checked for udisk, but it seems, that it is not present on my system.

Any kind of guesses, hints and explanation on how to use btrace (or smth. similar) would be appreciated.

Kind regards
FatalDiskError

Statistics: Posted by FatalDiskError — 2025-02-16 19:39 — Replies 1 — Views 39

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