So, I've installed, precleared and formatted via Simple Feature a 3 TB drive, which is connected to a MV8 along side a 2TB drive.  I noticed that the 2TB drive will spin down with all the other drives, but the 3 TB drive won't.  The little green dot next to the drive is solid and all the others are blinking.

 

There after, I found these two error in the system log

Apr 30 13:53:28 Tower logger:        missing codepage or helper program, or other error (Errors)

 

Apr 30 13:53:28 Tower emhttp: disk7 mount error: 32 (Errors)

 

I have not run the parity check yet, and I won't unless I can find out why it doesn't spin down, and why I'm getting those errors and what do they mean.

 

Thank you.

syslog-2013-04-30.zip

Those are status messages. They are not errors.

Three questions:

 

1) Is it safe to run parity check (uncorrected)

2) Will this status messages will always be present?

3) Why does the systems log states drive 7 is spin down, but in the unraid main page the little round dot is still solid green while all the other are blinking?

 

Thanks.

I uninstalled Simple Feauture and the errors/status comments went away. Now, I've got to find out why the darn #7 drive green dot stays solid when doing a spind down. I read someone was having the same issue, Burt I can find the post.