[RPi4] Constant access on external drives

    Hi guys, please remain relaxed. There is no reason to curse the case itself, this time. ;)

    ajne
    I will look into this, but I need some time to simulate your configuration in order to find a more practical solution. In the meantime (untested), you can change line 432 in this file:

    nano /storage/.kodi/addons/service.argononecontrol/resources/lib/argon.py

    from val = argonsysinfo_getmaxhddtemp()

    to val = 0

    Restart KODI afterwards or disable/enable the addon to activate the changes.
    systemctl restart kodi

    Quote from HarryH

    Hi guys, please remain relaxed. There is no reason to curse the case itself, this time. ;)

    ajne
    I will look into this, but I need some time to simulate your configuration in order to find a more practical solution. In the meantime (untested), you can change line 432 in this file:

    nano /storage/.kodi/addons/service.argononecontrol/resources/lib/argon.py

    from val = argonsysinfo_getmaxhddtemp()

    to val = 0

    Restart KODI afterwards or disable/enable the addon to activate the changes.
    systemctl restart kodi

    Hi,

    thank you for your reply. For your info, i changed line as you said, i reactivated addon, and now drives stay sleep without issues, and fan control is working fine (i using only control over CPU temp, i dont need another options), so for me it´s solved. Thank you very much for your help :)

    Thank you. i have the exact same issue with the case and external drives.

    Btw. I don't think it is related but when I unplug the external drive the internal ssd gets with all its partitions get mounted again and at that point I can no longer access the Pi via putty and I have to restart.

    Are the external drives powered by case only or do they have an own power supply? The kernel does not expect drives to be removed without first being unmounted. Does this problem also occur if you unmount the external drives beforehand?

    External drive has its own power supply. It seems not to occur when unmounting beforehand.

    I noticed it the first time because I unplugged the external drive so that the hdd would stop. I'm sure it did not happen when unpluuging the external drive case when I used my old case with a USB-stick for system partition. I cloned the USB drive to the internal SSD of the case