Mufti

As the topic states. I've reformatted. Attempted to mount as NTFS folder, and as a drive letter in every combination. I've restarted services, rebooted the machine. Fresh Windows 7 install. I can manually access the disk, copy files, run tests, etc. See attached. Edit; Resetting all settings option from the troubleshooting menu seems to have corrected the issue. Disregard.

As an update; Transfer speed was due to a failing drive in the "array", which was not identified via scanner. I have since replaced the drive, re-installed the OS and Stablebit Software, and recreated the pool from scratch. Which brings me to another issue; Scanner is not reading S.M.A.R.T. attributes. They are accessible by every other application I've tried, enabled in the bios, etc. message shows; "The on-disk S.M.A.R.T. check is not accessible on any of your disks. Drive temperature and mechanical operating parameters are not available and will not be monitored." I've done all the basic trouble shooting, and other drive diagnostic applications can read the s.m.a.r.t. attributes. The controller has been tested in another system in a different configuration, and I also replaced the controller to see if that was the issue. It is not likely. Edit; I set 'Smart_NoWmi' to True in the config file (after renaming per the wiki instructions), and now the GUI won't connect to the service. I've tried saving in both UTF-8 and ASCII. Same issue. Sigh. Edit 2; Combing through similar threads I came across your Direct I/O tool, and I can retrieve a response using the SCSIPassthrough48 method with Unsafe Direct I/O unchecked. Checking Unsafe Direct I/O reports as well, but... what is Unsafe exactly about this setting? The wiki describes it but does not go into data corruption, etc. I assume that since it worked in the diagnostics tool without crashing anything, that it is generally safe to use?

In addition to this, the write speed is unusable. I'm using a dedicated LSI controller for 8 drives, and I can't even break 3MBs write speed. Every time anything is copied to the pool over the network or locally it crawls. Direct copies to the drives are fine. Burst tests was in the 450MBs range. I was really starting to love the product until this stuff. : /

Hi all. Testing out DrivePool and I must say that it's by far the best pooling solution I've ever used. I am however running into a few oddities. 1. A drive in the pool is being completely ignored. - http://imgur.com/O4oODoh - Drive has been reformatted a few times for troubleshooting, added/removed, etc. No data present. Pool folder exists, but is empty. - It is a different make and model drive than the rest, but it is on the same controller card. - Functions properly stand alone. 2. The 'other' data is no where to be found. - I've read every blog post and forum post about the 'other' designation and nothing applies. - No data outside the pools. - No obvious hidden data - Recycling is empty Any assistance would be appreciated. All settings are default, with added space equalization plugin. Edit: 3. No read/write activity is being displayed on the pool anymore. I have reset drivepool by stopping the service and deleting the ProgramData folder. No change.