Mac Mini 2.3 GHz 16GB ram Late 2012 OSX Server running 10.8.5. Boot volume is a single internal 250 GB SSD with three external drives. One drive holds all user accounts (2TB) except for the only administrator account (which is on the SSD), one drive holds all media served by iTunes sharing (3TB), and one volume is a Time machine backup (4TB).
Thunderbolt connects to a Lacie eSATA hub and the User and Media volumes hang off of that. Backup drive hangs off the Firewire 800. The machine does stay logged into a non-admin account so that iTunes can serve content. The problem below is not affected by whether the machine is sitting at the log in screen or actually viewing the media account For the last month, at roughly 7 am every day, the server app starts to report that the Media volume is not responding and continuously reports that as many as 60+ times for the next 45 min or so. SSHing into the server and the volume appears fine. Sitting at the console or screen sharing to the machine, the volume appears fine. Disk Utility reports no problems. S.M.A.R.T. status reports verified on all volumes. I've tried changing the port the Media volume is connected to but I still get the 7 am series of reports for that volume. Even as the reports are flooding in via email, I can serve video from this machine to the AppleTV in the living room and to my laptop--even simultaneously. Rebooting changes nothing. Changing cables has no effect. Changing ports has no effect. Obvious suspicions would point at the eSATA hub, but changing the port the Media drive connects to doesn't change anything. I would love to disconnect the backup drive and hang the Media volume off Firewire 800 to test, but the drive itself doesn't have Firewire 800. Suggestions? /david -- david herren-lage, shoreham, vt Report Card Commentary: Your child has delusions of adequacy. ZH? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
