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Mac confuses unRAID disk with DVD


abernardi

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I'm having an ongoing problem that crops up from time to time:  When I have disk 1 of the unRAID server mounted and I put a CD or DVD in the DVD drive of my Mac, the Finder shows the DVD as disk 1.  I noticed this as iTunes was importing a playlist from disk 1.  I put in a DVD and suddenly I got an error from iTunes that it couldn't write to disk 1.  I went into the iTunes preferences and found that now it thought the music library should be located on the DVD, not on disk 1.

 

I think this has something to do with how OS X deals with volumes.  Before I put the DVD in the drive the path for my music files was: volumes/disk 1/Master Music Library.  And after I put the DVD in the drive it became: volumes/DVD/Memento (I had put in the movie Memento).

 

Anyone know what's going on?

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abernardi ... I ran into the same problem.  Sadly, it appears to be a problem with Mac OS X (I'm running 10.6.4).  I think the problem occurs because, by default, the DVD drive on a Mac is 'disk1' ... then when you mount another volume with the same name (e.g. disk1 from your unRAID array) Mac OS gets confused.

 

My quick and dirty solution was to simply create a user share in unRAID that includes only disk1 and name it something like diskOne.  There's probably someone that could give you a better answer than this, but this fix worked for me.

 

 

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A bug with OS X it is indeed.

 

But its not specific to an unRAID share; I have had mounted DVDs (or images) also get "borg'd" from mounting another device.

 

It seems, at least for me, this bug crops up when I have too many mounted volumes, and eventually by mounting just one too many, the bug manifests itself.  This is on my Mac Pro that has four internal drives with one drive partitioned into two.  So off the bat I have 5 volumes mounted from startup.  I also have two optical drives so I could mount up to two optical media.  And then I have the unRAID which has 9+1 drives plus flash, and has 4 shares defined (that means another 14 volumes I can individually mount simultaneously).  Finally, I have one eSATA drive dock and upwards of 8 external drives of various USB/eSATA/FireWire flavors.

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A bug with OS X it is indeed.

 

But its not specific to an unRAID share; I have had mounted DVDs (or images) also get "borg'd" from mounting another device.

 

It seems, at least for me, this bug crops up when I have too many mounted volumes, and eventually by mounting just one too many, the bug manifests itself.  This is on my Mac Pro that has four internal drives with one drive partitioned into two.  So off the bat I have 5 volumes mounted from startup.  I also have two optical drives so I could mount up to two optical media.  And then I have the unRAID which has 9+1 drives plus flash, and has 4 shares defined (that means another 14 volumes I can individually mount simultaneously).  Finally, I have one eSATA drive dock and upwards of 8 external drives of various USB/eSATA/FireWire flavors.

 

Auggie ... interesting that your problem doesn't pop up until you mount a large number of volumes.  For me, it occurs with only my main drive, my unRAID disk, and a DVD mounted.

 

Basically, if I have 'disk1' from my unRAID server mounted and then insert a DVD into my optical drive, the bug appears.  I can still see the blue-ish 'network disk' icon on my desktop labeled as 'disk1'.  However, when I click on that icon, it displays the contents of the DVD I inserted into the drive.  The standard icon that looks like a DVD is never displayed when I insert a DVD into my drive.

 

 

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