Is there some pattern that determines which drives spin-up when I get a directory listing on one of the user shares?  I just did "dir \\media-four\dvd" and had disks 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 spin up and the rest stay asleep.

 

First reaction is that 'dvd' probably only appears in disk3,4,5,7,9.  But I think no disks should spin up - I'll look into this.

First reaction is that 'dvd' probably only appears in disk3,4,5,7,9.  But I think no disks should spin up - I'll look into this.

 

DVD is on 1-7 and 9.  Trying it this morning, there was a long delay during which I'm sure I heard drives spinning up, but looking in the console it shows all drives down.  Very weird.

 

OK, I think something suspicious is going on with the web management console.  I was just able to delete a file from one of the disks on that machine (by telnetting in and using rm), and the management page still shows no disks spun-up.  That shouldn't be possible, right?

 

 

OK, I think something suspicious is going on with the web management console.  I was just able to delete a file from one of the disks on that machine (by telnetting in and using rm), and the management page still shows no disks spun-up.  That shouldn't be possible, right?

 

 

 

Remember the user shares are not yet writeable so what you may have deleted was only in the stored user share file in memory, look at the actual drive to see if it's still there OR do a re-scan and see if it comes back.

 

I first deleted the file from /mnt/disk7/DVD, then deleted the symbolic link from /mnt/users/DVD.  The drive did not register as spun up.

 

Yeah there's a bug.  Fixed in next beta release.

Tom,

 

You already know this I'm sure but the drives do spin up only the management console shows them as down, which is why I thought they did not spin up at all.