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Title: Taking hard drive out of DNS-321 and using it as backup HD in comp?
Post by: tone21705 on May 24, 2010, 09:27:47 AM

Hi,
I recently purchased SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3EG HD203WI 2TB to add onto my 321 which has a Seagate 1.5TB in it.

I wanted to use JBOD for the 2 disks. To get everything off (1.5TB of data) I began using ftp but that was only ~5mb/s. So I figured taking out the drive and plugging it into one of my SATA ports in my computer would be significantly faster...

My computer is running windows 7 and if I go into Disk Management it detects the drive and even says its Online. But if I right click I have no options and I cant assign a drive letter to it...

I tried my new 2TB drive and I was able to format it and assign a drive letter.
Did the dns-321 do something special to the drive to make it inaccessible by normal computers? Maybe to protect the data since its PW protected on the dns-321?

Thanks,

Title: Re: Taking hard drive out of DNS-321 and using it as backup HD in comp?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on May 24, 2010, 09:56:07 AM

The DNS-321 uses the EXT2 or EXT3 Linux filesystem to store files.  This is not compatible with Windows.  There are EXT2/3 driver packages available to read/write the contents of Linux filesystems under Windows.

Title: Re: Taking hard drive out of DNS-321 and using it as backup HD in comp?
Post by: crispy.cc on June 07, 2010, 05:08:27 PM

Quote from: gunrunnerjohn on May 24, 2010, 09:56:07 AM

The DNS-321 uses the EXT2 or EXT3 Linux filesystem to store files.  This is not compatible with Windows.  There are EXT2/3 driver packages available to read/write the contents of Linux filesystems under Windows.

Well what are the driver packages? Any links?

Title: Re: Taking hard drive out of DNS-321 and using it as backup HD in comp?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on June 07, 2010, 05:13:12 PM

Here are two of the more popular ones.

I use this one with Windows 7: http://www.ext2fsd.com/

This one is also popular, but it didn't run on my Win7 64 bit machine: http://www.fs-driver.org/

Title: Re: Taking hard drive out of DNS-321 and using it as backup HD in comp?
Post by: tone21705 on June 08, 2010, 09:46:19 AM

Thank you.

Worked like a charm.

Title: Re: Taking hard drive out of DNS-321 and using it as backup HD in comp?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on June 08, 2010, 10:17:19 AM

You're welcome. :)