October 20, 2025Oct 20 A known issue with the Odroid XU4, HC1, and HC2 is that it (uboot?) does not properly park the hard disk heads before/during shutdown or power cycle/off. So, the disk drive is forced to emergency hard retract the heads when power is shutdown/cycled. This is of course a violent action for the HDD and should be avoided. Use this odroid.shutdown script and install into /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/. https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-xu4/troubleshooting/shutdown_script Recommend adding to armbian for XU4 distros.
October 24, 2025Oct 24 Author Hmmm. Never mind, maybe. I see that Armbian has it included here, but for some reason it was not installed automatically. https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/packages/bsp/odroid
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