Windows 7 & Network drives (1 Viewer)

[Smash]

Hey

I have a small problem and it bothers the hell out of me. My HTPC is running Windows 7 and using network shares from my server. The harddrives on the server spins down, when there's no activity on them for more than 10 minutes to save power. But... when I start my HTPC and start Mediaportal, it does not spin up the harddrives. And because of that, the importer does not run. Even when I have spinned the drives up from Windows Explorer and the network drives are marked as "green" and available, they are still marked with a red cross in MovingPictures configuration. I have to manually try to add a folder on the drives and cancel it, to make the MovingPictures importer run.
I'ved tried to Google it, because it seems like a Windows 7 issue, but has been unable to find anything useful.

Any ideas?

 

[Addow]

Hmmm, weird. I have almost the same configuration (Win7 + mounted NAS drive + downspinned RAID drives) and have no problem at all. When I access a movie after a night of sleep, the drives spin up and the movie starts after a few seconds. Same on boot: network mounts are done and MovPic importer does its work.

Strange situation... I guess the logs won't clear up the problem? I have absolutely no idea what the cause may be. Do you have your drives mounted with the option "Reconnect at logon"?

 

[Smash]

I'm pretty sure it's an Windows 7/Vista issue, with marking network drives with an red x, when spinning down. Just thought others might have experienced the same and had a solution.

I can see in the Mediaportal Wiki that they recommend using UNCs, instead of network drives. Might give that a try in the weekend, when I've time to restart my db again.

Oh, I can see this has already been reported as a bug:
Issue 513 - moving-pictures - Plugin sometimes can't restore disconnected network drives - Project Hosting on Google Code

My bad.

 

[ryan20021982]

So your using mapped drives? If so then just navigate to the network location instead I do it this way with win7 on both mediacenter and server with raid5 and spindown enabled, works fine.

 

[Smash]

Yeah, that's what's recommended by MediaPortal

KnowledgeBase - MediaPortal Manual Documentation

 

[ryan20021982]

Ok just making sure cause this confused me

"I can see in the Mediaportal Wiki that they recommend using UNCs, instead of network drives."

Didnt know you meant mapped network drives when you said network drives

 

[Smash]

Ok just making sure cause this confused me

"I can see in the Mediaportal Wiki that they recommend using UNCs, instead of network drives."

Didnt know you meant mapped network drives when you said network drives

Sorry, I can see that wasn't very :sorry:clear. - Yes, currently I'm using mapped network drives (persistent).