Hi all,
I am using ZEVO with an external Firewire 800 dual-drive enclosure:
http://www.amazon.com/DataTale-2-Bay-Fi ... ref=sr_1_1
I have the enclosure connected via a FW800 cable and it is using bus power, so there is only one cable connected to the enclosure.
This setup was working like a champ with ZEVO on a mid-2009 MacBook Pro. When the computer slept, the drives would spin down but the enclosure would stay on. Then when it woke, the drives would spin up again.
I recently upgraded to a mid-2012 MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, it seems that this model does not provide firewire bus power while in sleep mode, so when you put it to sleep, the enclosure completely shuts off and does not turn on again when the computer wakes.
This is a problem because after waking, I have to remember to quickly turn on the enclosure, or my pool will become inaccessible:
$ sudo zpool list
no pools available
$ sudo zpool import tank
cannot import 'tank': no such pool available
At this point, the only remedy I know of is to reboot.
I know that this isn't really ZEVO's fault. I am mainly just wondering if there is a better way to recover from this kind of drive disappearance than rebooting.