I have 6 Disks plus a Cache drive... When the Cache drive loads and is mounted I have a Formula 1 folder that goes missing.

When I unmount the drives and take the Cache drive out the folder shows up.

Would there be any reason for this to happen?

 

I am trying to run a cache drive because my internet connection runs too fast with out it.

 

Any advice would be great

Are you caching the Formula 1 folder? If not, if you browse your cache drive do you see an empty Formula 1 folder? If so, try deleting it.

 

If you are not caching it currently, and don't have the folder on your cache drive, try enabling cache for that share and see what happens.

 

I am not sure why this is occurring, but a bit of quick investigation may help resolve this.

 

There may be others that are missing... but the folder only shows up when the cache drive is not enabled... I know that the Share is set to use the cache drive, but I know that the folder was there before I activated the Cache drive.

I am really starting to think that I have a hardware fault and I think that I need to pick up a couple of Sata cards to put the drives on.

I have 6 Disks plus a Cache drive... When the Cache drive loads and is mounted I have a Formula 1 folder that goes missing.

When I unmount the drives and take the Cache drive out the folder shows up.

Would there be any reason for this to happen?

 

I am trying to run a cache drive because my internet connection runs too fast with out it.

 

Any advice would be great

I don't understand what you mean "When the Cache drive loads". You talk about mounting and unmounting. Are you actually using the command line to run mount and umount commands? Or do you actually mean physically removing drives? Or do you mean stopping the array and putting it into maintenance mode?

 

Do you have a user share named "Formula 1"? I recommend not having spaces or other special characters in share names.

So the folder disappears when I get the cache drive to activate. I have been playing with this issue as of late where the cache drive has not been working properly. Most times I have to restart UnRaid to get the cache drive to show up. Once I get all drives to show I noticed that the formula 1 folder did a disappearing act. I stopped the array and made the cache drive as none and the folder reappears. Then watching shows I got lagging (XMBC buffering a bunch) So I then powered down unraid and removed the drive (unplugged it) from the raid. Now there is no problems at all.

 

I guess that I should also mention that I am using 5.0-rc12a

Okay, so based on the extra information I think there are likely two recommendations:

 

1) move yourself to 5.0.5 final to see if the issue persists

2) If you have drives that are causing issues you will likely want to run SMART reports on them, and ideally replace them.

 

Also, what is your power supply? If it's very low end it may not be able to provide sufficient power to your 7 disks, so can cause wonky behaviour as far as disk availability - however I would expect this to be more random, and not just the same folder/disk.

 

Lastly... with the cache drive mounted, can you browse the disks from Windows (i.e. \\tower\disk1) and see the Formula 1 folder/share?

After doing some more trouble shooting it appears that it was the cache drive itself. I swapped out a 1tb drive for a VelociRaptor 160 gig drive that I was not using.

In the mean time I have the 1tb drive in my main machine and running some test on it.