Shared Drive becomes a Ghost

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Shared Drive becomes a Ghost

My shared Drive turned into a Ghost. i have an xserve, intel quad core 2.26, with mirrored raid 2TB, and an SSD for OSX Maverick. the drive became a ghost since i was on mountain lion. i formatted the drives, created an new raid, brought back the data, it was smooth. 24 hours later, the drive icon on on the desk top become hazy, then after the server restarts over the weekend it disappeared. the drive is still visible in disk utility, and same is the raid set. i can access the folders by right click on the drive in DU and viewing it. then creating a shortcut for it.

the network users can see the drive but permissions on it are chaotic. repeated the cleanup and format, same results.

advice please.

Xserve, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), xserve quad2.26,SSD+4x2TB raid,32GB

Posted on Mar 27, 2014 7:52 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 28, 2014 5:07 AM in response to maurice-lb

Connect a different drive and see if it manifests itself similarly. This might involve a swap, if that disk is internal. If the "new" disk is stable and functional, then I'd suspect hardware problems with the original disk. With disks in general, hardware errors are always a good suspect.

If you've got a copy handy, run the hardware diagnostics. There are various I/O exercisers around, as well — tools that can generate specific patterns or an I/O load.

Local general preference has disks that even appear to go wonky replaced.

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maurice-lb Author

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Apr 15, 2014 9:05 PM in response to MrHoffman

The hardware I'm using are new. I tried removing the raid and making a new one, the problem repeated. This issue is affecting the time machine because it considers the shared drive in constant change and keeps backing it up and fills the other raid set which is also a raid.

I tried clearing the time machine raid after the shared drive became a ghost (to have a clean backup) the time machine was filling up again. Which means th shared drive is in constant change...

Now what do you think?

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Answer 3

May 2, 2014 10:08 AM in response to maurice-lb

I am have the same exact problem. I called tech support, they did a remote session. Turns out the drive hid itself. In Terminal, he had me permorm the following steps:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE hit enter

killall Finder hit enter

chflags nohidden

The drive then showed up. He had me copy all of the data through a terminal session to another xserve. When this is done he told me to perform more terminal commands:

chflags nohidden (then drag the hiden drive into terminal window and press enter)

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE (This will hide hidden files after you’re done)

Killall Finder

Give this a shot and post back.

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Answer 4

May 2, 2014 4:03 PM in response to maurice-lb

What ever I tried did not work. I will have to call support next week.

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