HDD keeps spinning down, aggressive standby

VanC · 12 November 2021 11:18

Hi,

I’ve run into a problem with my HDD (Toshiba DT01ACA100) and after a couple of hours of googleing and checking forum posts here I’m now requesting help.

What’s the problem: my HDD is somehow aggressively going into standby and therefore spinning down. I installed the system on my SSD, but data is located on my HDD. As you can imagine, every time I am accessing a program (e.g. dolphin), the HDD needs to spin up again, slowing down my work A LOT. The spin down happens approximately after 30s idle time.

What I’ve tried:

hdparm: setting both the standby timeout (-S flag) and setting the advanced power management feature (-B flag). -B flag is accepted and set to >127, however I somehow can’t set the -S flag. After executing e.g. hdparm -S 200 on the device, queueing it with hdparm -S returns that no value is set.
using the gnome disk utility so set standby timeout and APM. GUI is telling me it is set, but queueing it with hdparm will give no value for -S (bad/missing standby-interval value).
I disabled the “SATA power management” feature in my BIOS. I wasn’t able to locate any AHCI settings.

I migrated from Arch to Manjaro lately, on Arch this was not a problem at all. Anyway, loving Manjaro so far.

Output of dmesg with a couple of start / stop activity.

[ 5409.422702] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 5409.424029] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 5409.424084] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 5409.425538] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 5409.425547] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 5409.425710] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 5409.425880] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 5418.021636] audit: type=1131 audit(1636713093.173:275): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj==unconfined msg='unit=NetworkManager-dispatcher comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
[ 5432.492075] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 5432.492466] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 5581.402444] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 5581.403642] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 5581.403648] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 5581.405110] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 5581.405117] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 5581.405244] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 5581.405366] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 5631.048745] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 5631.049278] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 5733.269384] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 5733.270727] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 5733.270740] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 5733.272355] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 5733.272368] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 5733.272561] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 5733.272844] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 5756.282064] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 5756.282395] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 6009.419098] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 6009.420476] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6009.420491] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6009.422236] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6009.422250] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6009.422480] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 6009.422709] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 6032.478647] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 6032.478981] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 6079.012424] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 6079.013804] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6079.013818] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6079.015381] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6079.015394] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6079.015600] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 6079.015818] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 6102.085301] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 6102.085663] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 6120.139073] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 6120.140442] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6120.140455] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6120.142107] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6120.142120] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6120.142320] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 6120.142538] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 6143.185322] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 6143.185670] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 6570.425335] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 6570.426721] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6570.426735] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6570.428424] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6570.428439] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6570.428605] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 6570.428883] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 6599.773974] audit: type=1100 audit(1636714274.926:276): pid=29887 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=pam_faillock,pam_permit,pam_faillock acct="muellerl" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6599.777580] audit: type=1101 audit(1636714274.930:277): pid=29887 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:accounting grantors=pam_unix,pam_permit,pam_time acct="muellerl" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6599.778214] audit: type=1110 audit(1636714274.930:278): pid=29887 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:setcred grantors=pam_faillock,pam_permit,pam_faillock acct="root" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6599.786310] audit: type=1105 audit(1636714274.940:279): pid=29887 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:session_open grantors=pam_limits,pam_unix,pam_permit acct="root" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6599.792615] audit: type=1106 audit(1636714274.946:280): pid=29887 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:session_close grantors=pam_limits,pam_unix,pam_permit acct="root" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6599.792848] audit: type=1104 audit(1636714274.946:281): pid=29887 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:setcred grantors=pam_faillock,pam_permit,pam_faillock acct="root" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6625.715249] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 6625.715612] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 6631.095617] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 6631.096939] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6631.096952] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6631.098577] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6631.098587] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6631.098819] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 6631.099043] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 6675.745189] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 6675.745534] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 6681.168993] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 6681.170336] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6681.170349] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6681.172003] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:e0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 6681.172017] ata3.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:e0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 6681.172230] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 6681.172474] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 6703.991854] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 6703.992211] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 6929.825216] audit: type=1100 audit(1636714604.980:282): pid=30287 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=pam_faillock,pam_permit,pam_faillock acct="muellerl" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6929.827675] audit: type=1101 audit(1636714604.980:283): pid=30287 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:accounting grantors=pam_unix,pam_permit,pam_time acct="muellerl" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6929.828058] audit: type=1110 audit(1636714604.980:284): pid=30287 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:setcred grantors=pam_faillock,pam_permit,pam_faillock acct="root" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'
[ 6929.832577] audit: type=1105 audit(1636714604.986:285): pid=30287 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 subj==unconfined msg='op=PAM:session_open grantors=pam_limits,pam_unix,pam_permit acct="root" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/4 res=success'

inxi output:

System:
  Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64
  root=UUID=1f198e94-109f-481a-9715-de7e67df55a5 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
  apparmor=1 security=apparmor
  resume=UUID=59f8ef9f-0a3b-45c5-8666-41402912a9b3 udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP ProDesk 600 G4 MT v: N/A
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: HP model: 83EC v: KBC Version 07.D2.00 serial: <filter> UEFI: HP
  v: Q02 Ver. 02.06.03 date: 02/15/2019
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_2 model: Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard
  serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
  status: Discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_3 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 3
  serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
  status: Discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.42 GiB used: 10.46 GiB (67.9%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i5-8600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake
  note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: EA
  cache: L2: 9 MiB bogomips: 37213
  Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/4300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900
  4: 900 5: 900 6: 1160
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle ht hwp hwp_act_window
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good rtm sdbg sep smap smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2
  sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
  xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
  Type: l1tf
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e92 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
  chip-ID: 10de:1c02 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
  loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa display-ID: :0
  screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1440 s-dpi: 108 s-size: 1204x342mm (47.4x13.5")
  s-diag: 1252mm (49.3")
  Monitor-1: DP-2 res: 2560x1440 hz: 75 dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2")
  diag: 685mm (27")
  Monitor-2: DP-4 res: 2560x1440 hz: 75 dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2")
  diag: 685mm (27")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2
  v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
  bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f1
  class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: RODE Microphones RØDE NT-USB Mini type: USB
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 19f7:0015
  class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
  v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15bb class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: up speed: 10 Mbps duplex: unknown mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: vnet0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
  driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:4 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 702.28 GiB (49.9%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix
  model: BC501 HFM512GDJTNG-8310A size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
  logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter>
  rev: 80002C00 temp: 36.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
  type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A8L0 scheme: GPT
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp HLDS model: DVDRW GUD1N rev: LD04
  dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 220.25 GiB size: 220.25 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 121.08 GiB (55.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  label: N/A uuid: 1f198e94-109f-481a-9715-de7e67df55a5
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
  used: 94 MiB (36.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  label: SYSTEM uuid: 9EC9-1CEA
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 220.25 GiB size: 220.25 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 121.08 GiB (55.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  label: N/A uuid: 1f198e94-109f-481a-9715-de7e67df55a5
  ID-4: /run/media/muellerl/C raw-size: 250 GiB size: 250 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 205.85 GiB (82.3%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
  label: C uuid: 4C307FBB307FAA9A
  ID-5: /run/media/muellerl/D raw-size: 931.39 GiB size: 931.39 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 374.73 GiB (40.2%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: D
  uuid: C408CD1C08CD0DFC
  ID-6: /var/cache raw-size: 220.25 GiB size: 220.25 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 121.08 GiB (55.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  label: N/A uuid: 1f198e94-109f-481a-9715-de7e67df55a5
  ID-7: /var/log raw-size: 220.25 GiB size: 220.25 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 121.08 GiB (55.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  label: N/A uuid: 1f198e94-109f-481a-9715-de7e67df55a5
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 6.42 GiB used: 536.8 MiB (8.2%)
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 label: N/A
  uuid: 59f8ef9f-0a3b-45c5-8666-41402912a9b3
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
  label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 128 MiB fs: <superuser required>
  label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-4:2 info: RODE Microphones RØDE NT-USB Mini type: Audio,HID
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 19f7:0015 class-ID: 0300
  serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 1-9:6 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-9.2:7 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 1-10:4 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
  type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
  chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 3.1
  speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 42 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 38%
Info:
  Processes: 317 Uptime: 2h 4m wakeups: 35 Init: systemd v: 249
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 alt: 8 clang: 12.0.1 Packages:
  pacman: 1468 lib: 382 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.8
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.08

I’m auto mounting the HDD, my fstab, but the problem existed before I added it to fstab.

UUID="theUuid" /run/media/../D ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

I appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
Regards

glutto · 14 November 2021 02:48

This may sound strange, but I have a similar problem with seemingly unrelated connections.

2021-11-13 8:23 P.M.	kernel	ata4: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
2021-11-13 8:23 P.M.	kernel	ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
2021-11-13 8:23 P.M.	kernel	sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
2021-11-13 8:23 P.M.	kernel	sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
2021-11-13 8:23 P.M.	kernel	sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk

I get this message every minute or so, but ONLY when I have a Sony Dualshock 4 controller connected to Steam via bluetooth. During this period info being read from that drive is briefly paused, then resumes shortly after.

As soon as I turn the controller off, the messages and problem stops.

VanC · 15 November 2021 10:53

I think I found the issue. I was investigating power saving features and found that TLP (see archlinux wiki: TLP - ArchWiki) (TLP is a laptop power saving feature) is turned on (check systemd systemctl status tlp). I checked tlp-stat and found that it is running on battery mode. I don’t know if it is normal that TLP is enabled on a desktop machine, but I kept it enabled. The battery mode of TLP does what is advertises to do, saving battery on a laptop, therefore aggressively putting the HDD in standby mode.

Solution was to force TLP in AC mode. I did this by setting the following settings in /etc/tlp.conf:

TLP_DEFAULT_MODE=AC
TLP_PERSISTENT_DEFAULT=1

The persistant default config forces TLP to use the default value and not trying to detect the power state (battery or AC). The default mode, obviously, sets the default mode. This way after checking tlp-stat TLP is now correctly running in AC mode (after a restart systemctl restart tlp).

Does someone know whether it is intended to use TLP at all on a desktop?

Regards

glutto · 15 November 2021 11:23

I was digging into TLP as well. It seemed a likely solution on this end. I don’t have time to try it right now, but I will when I get back from work.

Good to see a path for this fix! I was wandering aimlessly for while. Several weeks, actually.

Yochanan · 15 November 2021 18:42

No, it serves no purpose while on AC.

glutto · 15 November 2021 23:30

So far the two TLP_ changes that you pointed out have worked for me, too.

Nicely done.

glutto · 16 November 2021 22:02

So it looks like the update of TLP 1.3.1-2 to TLP 1.4.0-2 caused this issue. Probably some change in config. The first week of October was when I noticed.

VanC · 19 November 2021 08:14

Alright, I think I’m disabling it completely. Thanks

system · 21 November 2021 22:15

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