Patch for HDD Standby on QNAP X09

[mr_hyde]

Maybe I have not found the value in this forum, but how many capacities must the USB stick have to work fine? Another question, if I put the files on the stick, do I not slow down the system? I think a Hdd is much faster than an USB stick.

Hello,

the USB Stick should have at least 1 GB capacity (~ 10 €) --> 256 MB should be used for swap and you will need ~ the same capacity also for SSODS/Squeezecenter. Together it is a little bit mor then 512.

The speed is ok. The only thing that is a little bit slower is the start of dynamic playlists (thats what i observed), but Date/time screesaver and also internet radio allows HDD standby. This is at least important for me.

[sk33ve]

That seems to be working great thanks Mr_Hyde.

The disk is definitely spinning down, however the lights don't swap to standby like I anticipated (I think normally the status light goes out or something). I assume this is because the NAS isn't in full standby more, instead it has just spun down the disk?

[sk33ve]

Actually, I take that back, it is acting properly!

Not sure it works if I set the timer to anything more than about 10 mins though strangely, I'll experiment more today!

[Hellsblade]

Hi just installed the USB stick utility. 0.3.

I can't check if standby works yet, because i have a very large BT download running (32Gb ;-)).
But i'm sure that changing the swapfile gave me a good speed increase. Espacially the thumbnails show up faster than before.

So a big thumbs up and thx for this tool and SSOTS of course.

Rgds,
Hellsblade

[phibes4000]

I've installed the utility for swap & ssods. It looks good; although it would be great to be able to set a custom swap size.

I can't get my HDD to go into standby, set at 5 min; I've tried turning everything off except slimserver, itunes service; and disconnecting the network. I'm using the SuperDateTime plugin too.

Any ideas? I have 2 Samsung 1TB Drives, RAID 1...

[Hellsblade]

I think your script is creating a Symbolic link to public folder in the root folder of the QNAP.
I think this is caused by this part of the script;

if [ -f $NEW_LINK/SSODS/$RCSSODS ]; then
rm -rf /volume1
ln -sf $NEW_LINK /volume1
ln -sf $DIRPUBLIC $NEWLINK/$PUBLIC
else....

There is no underscore the the second ln command.
I don't know the first thing about scripts so please review this and can you please explain why this link is needed in the volume1 share?

I even found a recursive link in the in the public directory itself so that caused infinite byte counting when looking at the properties of the public share ;-).

rgds,
Hellsblade

[mr_hyde]

I think your script is creating a Symbolic link to public folder in the root folder of the QNAP.
I think this is caused by this part of the script;

if [ -f $NEW_LINK/SSODS/$RCSSODS ]; then
rm -rf /volume1
ln -sf $NEW_LINK /volume1
ln -sf $DIRPUBLIC $NEWLINK/$PUBLIC
else....

There is no underscore the the second ln command.
I don't know the first thing about scripts so please review this and can you please explain why this link is needed in the volume1 share?

I even found a recursive link in the in the public directory itself so that caused infinite byte counting when looking at the properties of the public share ;-).

rgds,
Hellsblade

Hi,

thanks for the hint. There has to be an underscore.

I will correct this in the next version.

The link to public share is needed, if you want to update Squeezecenter via SSOTS when it is linked to usb since flips script looks at /volume1/Public

[mr_hyde]

Hi,

i've uploaded an updated version.

- minor improvements, bug fixes
- smartctl should work for multiple HDD
- README file (can be displayed inside the tool)

http://user.blue-cable.de/mrhyde/files/usbutil_r03a.zip

[volpone]

Hi,

i've uploaded an updated version.

- minor improvements, bug fixes
- smartctl should work for multiple HDD
- README file (can be displayed inside the tool)

http://user.blue-cable.de/mrhyde/files/usbutil_r03a.zip

Hi,
Seems a very good and precious work, congratulations Mr_Hyde!

Unfortunatly i'm running SC 7 on Synology DS207+ (arm) with the same hibernation issue as on Qnap TS.

=> Mr_Hyde, do you think it is possible to adapt your scripts to work with SSODS on arm Synology DS ?

=> Any Linux expert here to do the adaptation job ?

It would be great to exit from this "never ending hibernation story".

Regards

Volpone

[mr_hyde]

Hi,
Seems a very good and precious work, congratulations Mr_Hyde!

Unfortunatly i'm running SC 7 on Synology DS207+ (arm) with the same hibernation issue as on Qnap TS.

=> Mr_Hyde, do you think it is possible to adapt your scripts to work with SSODS on arm Synology DS ?

=> Any Linux expert here to do the adaptation job ?

It would be great to exit from this "never ending hibernation story".

Regards

Volpone

Hi Volpone,

i am quite sure that the migration to Synology is possible since i've had one DS106 in the past and my older version (for SSODS 2.XX) worked reliable.

The problem is that i have no DS available and it is not possible for me to adapt the script without any tool to test it(actually i even don't know if it works for QNAP209 and 409) :-(