PS3 my ps3 HDD spins down/goes in standby about every 4 seconds if not enough data is asked for (?)

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d00mer36

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i use a 2504b model with a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1tb running CEX COBRA EVILNAT 4.89. the hdd even stops ingame seemingly, sometimes stopping the backround music for example, or having a 1 second freeze. it cant be healthy for the hdd either right? on my pc i always had it disabled and my hdd there never spun down. other than that the setup works perfectly. so is there something i can do about it? Is that normal behaviour for a ps3 and i just never noticed when i ran ofw with the stock drive?
 
It is not normal, depend of how HDD firmware was programmed.

You can change head parking time interval using hdparm, but be careful as this is write permanently in HDD config where is stored (I dunno if this is in service area, or on eeprom).
 
Berion said:
It is not normal, depend of how HDD firmware was programmed.

You can change head parking time interval using hdparm, but be careful as this is write permanently in HDD config where is stored (I dunno if this is in service area, or on eeprom).
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so i can i use hdparm to change it on windows, put the hdd back into the ps3 and all my data is still there?
 
On Windows or Linux. hdparm originally is Linux software.

Yes, HDD "settings" aren't store on mass storage space. However, be careful on Windows with PS3 HDD. This system is aggressive and will want overwrite first sectors by MBR or GPT which You cannot agree (he will ask about initialization: refuse to do that or else this will kill PS3 partition table!).
 
Berion said:
On Windows or Linux. hdparm originally is Linux software.

Yes, HDD "settings" aren't store on mass storage space. However, be careful on Windows with PS3 HDD. This system is aggressive and will want overwrite first sectors by MBR or GPT which You cannot agree (he will ask about initialization: refuse to do that or else this will kill PS3 partition table!).
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please can you help me further?
 
Via USB it could not work.

And sorry, I forgot syntax for this. I modifying this in ancient times when Seagate and WD released models which insanely quickly doing head parking, so this was solution I looking for back then. But that was many many years ago. Parram should be in readme.

BTW: Are You familiar with CLI apps?
 
Berion said:
Via USB it could not work.

And sorry, I forgot syntax for this. I modifying this in ancient times when Seagate and WD released models which insanely quickly doing head parking, so this was solution I looking for back then. But that was many many years ago. Parram should be in readme.

BTW: Are You familiar with CLI apps?
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no i am not familar.
 
Then You shouldn't touch it. ;)

If You run on Windows CMD or PowerShell, or terminal on Linux, You will be able to use CLI apps like hdparm. Then typing eg. "man hdparm" (on Linux) or "hdparm /?" (on Windows) You will get list of all parrams and syntax.
 
d00mer36 said:
thanks for answering, could you please give me a tutorial on how to use hdparm? ive installed it from here: [link removed] dont want to do anything wrong. i will connect the hdd with a sata usb adapter.
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I just wanted to come and say that I fixed the same problem on my PS3 with the help of this program. Thanks guys!

I used the setting -S 24 which according to wikipedia article gives 120 seconds spindown time. It is still not 120 seconds, but over a minute is much better than the 4 seconds.
 
TobyJohnson said:
I just wanted to come and say that I fixed the same problem on my PS3 with the help of this program. Thanks guys!

I used the setting -S 24 which according to wikipedia article gives 120 seconds spindown time. It is still not 120 seconds, but over a minute is much better than the 4 seconds.
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so were you able to do it via usb adapter or did you connect the hdd via sata?
 
TobyJohnson said:
I just wanted to come and say that I fixed the same problem on my PS3 with the help of this program. Thanks guys!

I used the setting -S 24 which according to wikipedia article gives 120 seconds spindown time. It is still not 120 seconds, but over a minute is much better than the 4 seconds.
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also can you give more info in how you used the program and if the changes are really permanent? (ive read that they arent)
 
d00mer36 said:
also can you give more info in how you used the program and if the changes are really permanent? (ive read that they arent)
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hdparm seems to write the changes to the hdd firmware as Berion mentioned. The spindown business stopped when I reinstalled the hdd to my PS3.

As in the hdparm website guide you mentioned, I used

hdparm -i /dev/hda
hdb
hdc
hdd

and so on to identify the correct hdd.

Then when you are completely sure that you have identified your PS3 hdd, I wrote

hdparm -S 24 /dev/hdc , or whatever is your PS3 hdd.

Proceed with care even if I think this command is one of the more harmless.

Note that the command prompt to enter these needs to be in administrator mode for this to work.

Also the hdparm version wants to install something to your windows startup folder so I ended up uninstalling it after the job was done.
 
TobyJohnson said:
hdparm seems to write the changes to the hdd firmware as Berion mentioned. The spindown business stopped when I reinstalled the hdd to my PS3.

As in the hdparm website guide you mentioned, I used

hdparm -i /dev/hda
hdb
hdc
hdd

and so on to identify the correct hdd.

Then when you are completely sure that you have identified your PS3 hdd, I wrote

hdparm -S 24 /dev/hdc , or whatever is your PS3 hdd.

Proceed with care even if I think this command is one of the more harmless.

Note that the command prompt to enter these needs to be in administrator mode for this to work.

Also the hdparm version wants to install something to your windows startup folder so I ended up uninstalling it after the job was done.
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the settings are not permanent in the firmware atleast not with my toshiba drive and i even tried an additional command for the apm. it works on pc i am pretty sure i heard the drive spin up when i send the command but its no use in the ps3. so i guess next step break open my seagate mobile hdd and put that thing in the ps3. edit: bad luck again its a samsung usb hard drive inside. it could have been a normal sata with an usb adapter but no...
 
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d00mer36 said:
the settings are not permanent in the firmware atleast not with my toshiba drive and i even tried an additional command for the apm. it works on pc i am pretty sure i heard the drive spin up when i send the command but its no use in the ps3. so i guess next step break open my seagate mobile hdd and put that thing in the ps3. edit: bad luck again its a samsung usb hard drive inside. it could have been a normal sata with an usb adapter but no...
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Ok, interesting. I only have HGST disks. This might need more investigation.
 
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