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Title: Fireware 1.05 causes excessive disk spin-up?
Post by: bigclaw on June 06, 2008, 08:50:02 AM
Hello. I used to have firmware 1.04. With all server (FTP, iTunes, UPnP, etc) functionality turned off, it sleeps properly. Any LAN activity (PCs powering on and off) would not disturb it unless a client directly requested disk access.

This has changed with firmware 1.05, however. (I've also installed BitTorrent through the Easy Search utility.) The DNS-323 would periodically spin up with no apparent reason. To address the problem, I have done the following:

1. Temporarily renamed the BitTorrent executable folder as I didn't otherwise know how to disable BitTorrent.
2. Disabled Internet time syncing.

The unit seems to sleep longer now. However, this morning when I turned on a client PC, which maps the DNS-323 as a network drive, the DNS-323 got woken up again. I'm fairly confident the 1.04 firmware didn't do this.

The only other thing I can think of turning off is LLTD. As a drastic measure, I may revert to 1.04 to test, but that's quite a hassle.

Anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
Title: Re: Fireware 1.05 causes excessive disk spin-up?
Post by: fordem on June 06, 2008, 02:17:03 PM
Just wanted to mention that I have no spinup problems with 1.05 - after disabling the the unused itunes and upnp servers.
Title: Re: Fireware 1.05 causes excessive disk spin-up?
Post by: bigclaw on June 06, 2008, 04:30:20 PM
Quote from: fordem on June 06, 2008, 02:17:03 PM
Just wanted to mention that I have no spinup problems with 1.05 - after disabling the the unused itunes and upnp servers.

That's good to know. Can you elaborate on the status of the following in your config please?

NTP server
LLTD
BitTorrent

Also what's your hardware revision? Mine is A1.

Thanks a lot!
Title: Re: Fireware 1.05 causes excessive disk spin-up?
Post by: fordem on June 06, 2008, 06:37:13 PM
Hardware revision is A1

LLTP is disabled
BT is not installed
NTP Server ?  To the best of my knowledge this unit does not have an NTP server, it does have an NTP client and that is configured to use ntp1.dlink.com with a GMT -04:00 time zone and no DST
Title: Re: Fireware 1.05 causes excessive disk spin-up?
Post by: bigclaw on June 06, 2008, 08:08:19 PM
Quote from: fordem on June 06, 2008, 06:37:13 PM
Hardware revision is A1

LLTP is disabled
BT is not installed
NTP Server ?  To the best of my knowledge this unit does not have an NTP server, it does have an NTP client and that is configured to use ntp1.dlink.com with a GMT -04:00 time zone and no DST

Thanks. I meant NTP client. I've since disabled LLTD and yet to see it spin up unnecessarily, so I'm hopeful. The LLTD description actually does mention potential network performance issues; I wonder what they are.
Title: Re: Fireware 1.05 causes excessive disk spin-up?
Post by: fordem on June 07, 2008, 06:22:41 AM
The way I understand it LLTD - or Link Layer Topology Discovery - which you may also see decribed as LLTP (Link Layer Toplogy Protocol) is some sort of proprietary protocol that Microsoft developed to allow networks to be mapped and perhaps configured at least for QoS (Quality of Service)

I would guess that the performance issues could relate to misconfigured QoS but that is just a guess