spindown causing usb flash drive to fail

[axet]

Hello!

Using hd-idle vs usb flash microsd card reader causing drive to fail with any IO operations. It not suppose to spindown usb flash drive at whole.

Only machine reboot restores the drive functionality.

hd-idle -i 1 -d
...
sda spindown
disk=sda command=scsi spunDown=true reads=1139234 writes=0 idleTime=1 idleDuration=60 spindown=2024-11-10T09:17:10 spinup=2024-11-10T09:16:10 lastIO=2024-11-10T09:16:10
sdb spindown
disk=sdb command=scsi spunDown=true reads=49992 writes=0 idleTime=1 idleDuration=60 spindown=2024-11-10T09:17:10 spinup=2024-11-10T09:16:10 lastIO=2024-11-10T09:16:10
sde spindown
cannot spindown scsi disk /dev/sde:
open /dev/sde: no medium found
...

[  861.883267] sdb: detected capacity change from 244328448 to 0
[  891.304235] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 access beyond end of device
[  891.304239] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 1418752 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x1000 phys_seg 3 prio class 0
[  891.304242] BTRFS error (device dm-2): bdev /dev/mapper/luks-2b9a7550-4a28-4a26-9bfd-5ce55a1589a0 errs: wr 0, rd 3, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0
[  891.304256] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 access beyond end of device
[  891.304257] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3515904 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x1000 phys_seg 3 prio class 2
[  891.304258] BTRFS error (device dm-2): bdev /dev/mapper/luks-2b9a7550-4a28-4a26-9bfd-5ce55a1589a0 errs: wr 0, rd 4, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0
[  891.305453] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 access beyond end of device
[  891.305457] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 280608 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x1000 phys_seg 3 prio class 0
[  891.305462] BTRFS error (device dm-2): bdev /dev/mapper/luks-2b9a7550-4a28-4a26-9bfd-5ce55a1589a0 errs: wr 0, rd 5, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0
[  891.305483] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 access beyond end of device
[  891.305484] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 2377760 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x1000 phys_seg 3 prio class 2
[  891.305486] BTRFS error (device dm-2): bdev /dev/mapper/luks-2b9a7550-4a28-4a26-9bfd-5ce55a1589a0 errs: wr 0, rd 6, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 006: ID aaaa:8816 MXT microSD CardReader

Can we have exclude list command line option?

[adelolmo]

Hi @axet
Please have a look to the configuration section, specially to the first example: hd-idle -i 0 -a sda -i 300 -a sdb -i 1200.

[axet]

Ok.

2. I think "No media" should not be treated as error, but quietly skip the drive.

[axet]

By default hd-idle only need to spindown 'rotational' devices, which can be detected by reading the following property:

/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.4/0000:02:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1/queue/rotational
/sys/class/block/nvme0n1/queue/rotational
/sys/devices/virtual/block/zram0/queue/rotational

[adelolmo]

Hi @axet
In your case you could just spin down the disks you want:
hd-idle -i 0 -a sda -i 1 -a sdb -i 1