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Title: Any problem with restoring to Factory settings with no discs installed?
Post by: emcee2 on March 03, 2010, 10:39:38 AM

Hi.
I pulled my disks out to sort out a problem.  I installed a new firmware version (1.08) during that process.  Reading some other posts here it seems that I should probably restore the unit to factory defaults and then reconfigure any particular settings I had.

If I do the restore to factory defaults, does it matter if the discs are in or not?  I do not want the unit to reformat the disks when I pop them back in...

Thanks...

Title: Re: Any problem with restoring to Factory settings with no discs installed?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on March 03, 2010, 11:48:45 AM

Shouldn't make any difference.

Title: Re: Any problem with restoring to Factory settings with no discs installed?
Post by: Wiggs on March 04, 2010, 09:49:27 AM

Should be fine.  When you put the drives back, place them in the bays they were in if you are using RAID1.

Title: Re: Any problem with restoring to Factory settings with no discs installed?
Post by: emcee2 on March 04, 2010, 03:29:43 PM

Hi.  Another somewhat related question...
I've tried "Scan Disk" under "Disk Tools" a few times now but it always fails, but tells me nothing more than that.  Somewhat frustrating in that I don't know if there is an actual fault with the disks or what.

Assuming I get this puppy recognized by my home router, I'm prepared to copy everything off the DNS-323 Volume and then reformat the whole thing (it is RAID1 now)... but how the heck do you do that?  The button to "set RAID Type and Re-Format" is "unavailable".

Or should I just delve into the whole Telnet access thing and try and sort some things out from there?

Title: Re: Any problem with restoring to Factory settings with no discs installed?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on March 04, 2010, 04:01:49 PM

First off, I'd take the drives and run the manufacturer's diagnostics on them connected to a computer directly.  Then you'll know if they having a problem or it's the NAS.