Hey guys,

 

First time poster and relative newbie to unRAID.  Hopefully I'm posting in the right area on this board.

 

I purchased a pro license for unRAID so that I could add a cache drive.  My goal with this is to allow my server to spin down the data disks when the server isn't being used.  FYI, I'm running the OS on the USB/thumb drive, two data disks (disk1, disk2), one parity, and one cache drive (I don't care so much if the cache drive is always spun up, but I definitely don't want my data drives running constantly). 

 

I am only running a couple of apps (Plex, Sickbeard, Denyhosts, and Transmission).  I moved all of the installation/data files over to the cache drive ("/mnt/cache/plugin_settings/application_name/").  I've also configured the settings of each so that they only use the cache drive for most things (for example, transmission runs exclusively on the cache drive). 

 

Once I had all of my applications configured to use the cache drive, I went to the MAIN page, and hit the "spin down" button.  Disk2 started flashing to indicate it was spun down, but all of the others remained spun up.  From there, I shut down each application and only turned on one at a time to see if I could figure out which app was keeping the disks from spinning down.  With the exception of Sickbeard, each of the apps does let me spin down all of the drives (except for cache, but again... that's okay). 

 

I went into Sickbeard's settings to check to make sure it was only set up to use the cache drive.  The logs are set up to go to the cache drive, as is the Torrent Black Hole (/mnt/cache/torrents/watch), and also the Post Processing directory (set up for my torrent directory at /mnt/cache/torrents/").  I also changed my Search Frequency to 240 (from the default 60). 

 

I'm at a loss.  Does anyone else have any idea why this would be preventing my data drives from spinning down? 

 

Also, if this is useful, here's the info from the configuration page:

 

SB Version: alpha (master) -- source : fb37d332b333b43e7bcae46b619ae6b7ef94e266

SB Config file: /mnt/cache/plugin_settings/sickbeard/data/config.ini

SB Database file: /mnt/cache/plugin_settings/sickbeard/data/sickbeard.db

SB Cache Dir: /mnt/cache/plugin_settings/sickbeard/data/cache

SB Arguments: ['--daemon', '--port', '8081', '--datadir', '/mnt/cache/plugin_settings/sickbeard/data', '--pidfile', '/var/run/sickbeard/sickbeard.pid', '>', '/dev/null', '2>&1']

SB Web Root:

Python Version: 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 27 2010, 19:47:39) [GCC 4.5.1]

 

Thanks in advance!!!

No thoughts on this?  Bueller?  Bueller? 

Do you use sb post processing? The scan and process option?

 

Also have you run a parity check recently?

Yes I do use post processing.  Parity check scans weekly... No problems there. 

what is your TV Download Dir?

are you downloading to a folder on your cache or onto the actual raid? I made that mistake once with SAB. If you download to the cache and have sickbeard pointed to your TV share then after the file is downloaded it should process it to that share (which will still be on the cache til the mover happens).

Try to make sure all your directories are (for example you got a "TV" share) /mnt/TV and not /mnt/disk1/TV as it will override the cache function of actually keeping the file from the raid.

I hope that was some help

Thanks for your thoughts here (and sorry for the super long delay).  When you guys are referring to my TV Download Directory, I'm assuming you mean the download directory that I've configured for each individual show, right? 

 

By the way, the cache is set up as you said.  I do have the torrent file living on the cache directory.  Once it is completed, Sick Beard does it's post processing (renames/metadata/etc), and puts it all in the proper location on my array. 

 

The TV Download directory is "/mnt/user/media/videos/tv/TV-SHOW-NAME"

 

Btw, "MEDIA" is the share name I've set up on my array within unRaid.

 

I'm not using the disk# in the directory, so I believe I am pointing it to a share, and not to an individual disk.  Is this correct?