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10.8.5

Post by s34gull » Sun Sep 15, 2013 4:07 pm

Can anyone report on the status of Zevo 1.1.1 under 10.8.5? I tried searching, but no dice. Thanks in advance!
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ZEVO CE with pre-release and released OS X 10.8.5

Post by grahamperrin » Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:35 pm

I made everyday use of ZEVO Community Edition 1.1.1 with pre-release builds 12F9, 12F13, 12F17, 12F20, 12F23, 12F26, 12F30, 12F33 and 12F36 of Mountain Lion, OS X 10.8.5:

  • on a MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory
  • with my usual collection of pools.

Use of ZEVO with the released build 12F37 began on the afternoon of Friday the 13th.

Some of those pre-releases helped me to rethink something that has bugged my use of ZEVO, just occasionally, for nearly a year.

With the release, 12F37:

  • nothing remarkable so far, this Friday the 13th was good
  • if I can reproduce the behaviours that I found before release, I'll add notes in the relevant topics.

Broadly speaking:

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Re: 10.8.5

Post by dirkZevo » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:04 pm

works for me.
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Cross reference

Post by grahamperrin » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:55 pm

grahamperrin wrote:… if I can reproduce the behaviours that I found before release, I'll add notes in the relevant topics. …


Now in a troubleshooting topic that involves VirtualBoxVMs:


The example there (a double panic) is not directly comparable to the first pre-release kernel panic that drew my attention to activitymonitord, but the steps to produce a panic were pretty much the same so I'm going public with as much as is reasonable.

No cause for alarm – I doubt that any other user will encounter panics, or double panics, in the ways that I have. I had to push hard for a couple of weeks before a panic occurred.
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Re: 10.8.5

Post by I-ku-u » Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:09 am

I've observed that the hard disks supporting my pools are now being put to sleep. This is even tho' I have not checked "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" in Energy Saver prefs. I tried using the applescript from http://macdownload.informer.com/keep-drive-spinning/ on the volumes involved, but it doesn't help.

I'm certain of this because of consistent pauses from Finder and zfs list first thing in the morning (or other long breaks in usage) until after I hear the disks spin up.

I have two pools, one with disks connected all by eSata, the other a mix of eSata and Firewire. This appears to affect both pools, but testing to learn any specifics isn't easy, obvious, or a high priority. However, this is annoying me every morning, so I'm open to suggestions as to how to address it (or gather useful info that would allow same).
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Known issue with Build 12F37 of OS X 10.8.5

Post by grahamperrin » Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:12 am

I-ku-u wrote:… sleep. This is even tho' I have not checked "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" …


Thanks, I wasn't aware of the issue but it's known (leaked a few days ago).
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Re: Known issue with Build 12F37 of OS X 10.8.5

Post by I-ku-u » Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:20 am

grahamperrin wrote:
I-ku-u wrote:… sleep. This is even tho' I have not checked "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" …


Thanks, I wasn't aware of the issue but it's known (leaked a few days ago).


I can't feel that the issues mentioned as fixed in that will be helpful, as I never allow my Mac Pro to go to sleep. But waiting until that comes out makes sense before trying anything more drastic.
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Re: 10.8.5

Post by grahamperrin » Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:40 am

My apologies: I misread part of the 9to5Mac photograph. There's a clearer (text) description at Supplemental OS X 10.8.5 update to address outstanding problems | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews. Thanks to Topher Kessler.

Hard disk drives aside …

Issues with Bluetooth

I don't use a USB Bluetooth adapter so I can't comment on the issues mentioned in those two articles.

On the plus side, and of potential benefit of those of you who use Apple Bluetooth peripherals: whilst testing pre-release 12F30 I reported a bug that reflects a behaviour sometimes seen with past releases: Bluetooth not available following an automated restart or forced shut down … for example, following a kernel panic whilst using ZEVO.

When I last applied force in that way – whilst testing with a VirtualBoxVM (see above) – the Mac did work perfectly with my Apple Magic Mouse (0x030D) following the startup chime, at EfiLoginUI. With 12F37 I have had produced too few panics to draw a firm conclusion (I recall less than a handful of panics, maybe only the two on 26th September) but my hunch is that in 12F37 there's an improvement to Bluetooth for situations such as these.
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Keep Drive Spinning: cross reference

Post by grahamperrin » Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:48 am

I-ku-u wrote:http://macdownload.informer.com/keep-drive-spinning/ on the volumes involved, but it doesn't help. …


Please see my comments about Keep Drive Spinning agents at viewtopic.php?p=4127#p4127 … I wasn't certain then, but now …
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Re: 10.8.5

Post by dirkZevo » Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:55 am

I use hdapm. ( but mostly to spin the drive down, I suppose the other way around works as well )
To get it to work. I first boot into ubuntu on a usb stick , send a command using hdparm.
then reboot. this is a workaround for hdapm.

sudo hdapm 254 disk1
Password:
disk1: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
Set APM Level to 0xfe: Success
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