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Recent content by coyrls

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    HDD spin down issue on Merlin 378-55 (RT-N 66U)

    The culprit is the DLNA Media Server. It appears to access the USB drive every 10 minutes, see my post here: http://www.snbforums.com/threads/spinning-down-spinning-up.26776/ . If you disable the DLNA Media server, the spin down function will work and the disk will not turn on after 10 minuts.
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    Spinning down .... Spinning up

    OK, I think I've answered my own question. I turned the DLNA Media server off and it fixed the spinning up problem. I had the DLNA Media server "on" with the stock FW (the default setting) and that didn't cause the disk to spin up after being spun down, so there must be something different in...
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    Spinning down .... Spinning up

    I have "Disk spindown idle time" set to 300 in version 378.55 of the Merlin FW on an RT-AC68U. In the system log I see "sd-idle-2.6[4469]: spinning down /dev/sda after 5 mins 30 secs" entries, but after each one there is a "sd-idle-2.6[4469]: spinning up /dev/sda after 4 mins 31 secs" entry...
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    ASUS RT-AC68U Firmware version 3.0.0.4.378.6975

    FYI, I emailed ASUS Support with the following: I have had problems with my router "locking up". The only solution appears to be to power cycle the router. I went to the Asus Website to check if there was a firmware update and I discovered that the production firmware version 3.0.0.4.378_6975...
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