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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: jorbit1 on June 05, 2010, 05:04:20 PM
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Hi All,
I just got my dns 323 last week and have been using it with a single western digital 1tr drive. I loaded up all my data onto this drive and I wanted to now add a second drive and have them mirrored (raid 1). So I slipped in the new western digital 1tr drive in the other bay and I was prompted to format and select a raid configuration. At the time I was running firmware 1.08 and the system kept hanging on format (error code 112 at 5% complete). I then downgrade the firmware to 1.07 and everything seemed ok till I rebooted. When I logged into the admin console I saw a screen that prompted me to choose a hard drive configuration. Being that I already have a raid 1 configuration I clicked skip, but for some crazy reason every time I login the screen appears. Is there's something wrong with my raid ? Is there anyway to make this message go away ?
I've confirmed this on my status screen:
Volume Name: Volume_1
Volume Type: RAID 1
Sync Time Remaining: Completed
Total Hard Drive Capacity: 983454 MB
Used Space: 212468 MB
Unused Space: 770985 MB
Screen Prompt:
Select a RAID type: Standard (Individual Disks)
JBOD (Linear - Combines Both Disks)
RAID 0 (Striping - Best Performance)
RAID 1 (Mirroring - Keeps Data Safe)
Vendor Model Serial Number Size
WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B WD-WMATV0728866 1000 GB
WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B WD-WMATV7012001 1000 GB
Current Firmware 1.07
Thanks,
Jimmy
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I'd recommend resetting to factory defaults after flashing the firmware. Did the format ever complete?
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Hi James,
Once I flashed the firmware back to 1.07 (from 1.08) the format did completed. I can reset the box now but do you know if it will effect my current raid setting ? My only fear is that I may loss all my data.
Thanks,
Jimmy
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Resetting to defaults and upgrading the firmware has never affected the data on my drives, I've done it a few times on both the DNS-323 and DNS-321.
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Thanks gunrunnerjohn.
James,
I've updated the firmware back to 1.08 and did a factory reset (held the reset button down for 15 seconds). When I log into the admin console I'm still able to see the Hardware configuration screen, which again asks me how I'd like to configure my hard drives. Raid settings are still the same, raid 1, no remaining sync time left. I'm want to try removing the newly inserted hard drive, then re-inserting it with 'Auto Rebuild' enabled, any thoughts on if that might help or if it might have a negative impact ?
Thanks,
Jimmy
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This doesn't sound like a RAID issue, I'd forget about fooling with the drives.
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gunrunnerjohn,
I agree, it seems as though some configuration setting is getting skipped within the dns 323 coding. I guess I'll keep fiddling around, if I figure out the solution I'll post it.
Thanks,
Jimmy
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I'm somewhat at a loss.
Have you tried accessing it from another computer? Maybe it's time to eliminate anything on the computer side from being the issue.
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Thanks gunrunnerjohn, but no luck, a cached browser was a good observation though. I'm going to yank the second drive out and then hope that will trigger the dns-323 to reconfigure itself when I re-install it, I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks,
Jimmy
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Good luck. :)
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I'd be tempted to start again with it. It sounds like the drives are in a state where the NAS thinks they need setting up again. Backup your data somewhere, flash to 1.08, reset NAS, reformat as RAID1 and copy data back?
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I'm almost there Jamie (sorry I addressed you as James before, I think when I see jam** I assume James). I'm going to re-build the raid one last time and if that doesn't work I'm going to start from scratch. I'll take out the second drive, throw it in my pc, format it ntfs, then pull it out and drop it back in the nas. It's my last attempt at re-installing without fully formatting both drives.
Thanks,
Jimmy
I do have a back up of the data but its sitting on my windows machine running raid 0 and I really don't want to keep it there for very long (no clue how stable the drives are or the system). I was hoping this nas would be my end all solution for now.
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Let you guys know what happens in
The RAID volume is synchronizing now. Please wait for 158.9 minute(s).
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Well, that sounds promising. :D
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Three hours later...
Total Drive(s): 2
Volume Name: Volume_1
Volume Type: RAID 1
Sync Time Remaining: Completed
Total Hard Drive Capacity: 983454 MB
Used Space: 212468 MB
Unused Space: 770985 MB
PHYSICAL DISK INFO :
Slot Vendor Model Serial Number Size
Right WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B WD-WMATV0728866 1000 G
Left WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B WD-WMATV7012001 1000 G
Still prompted to choose a hardware configuration at admin log on ??? Next move is to start from scratch and format both drives....not looking forward to it, but hope it works.
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Very strange, something about those drives or the format it doesn't like.
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I just read the supported hard drive thread and my western digital 1 tr black drives aren't listed. The dlink site mentions drives that use advanced formatting, I didn't see anything about that on the western digital site, does anyone how I can verify this ?
Drive spec
WD1001FALS
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The affected drive models are listed in sticky at the top of the forum and the WD site (link in the sticky thread).
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=12977.0
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Thanks dosborne, that's good news, so my drives do not use Advanced Formatting Technology. I also found my drives are not on the list of supported drives in the other sticky, but I can't imagine they've tested every single hard drive out there ?
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Correct. Many models of drives from different manufacturers will work just fine even if not on the list.
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please try cmd :
hd_verify -w
then try web page again.
hope it is helpful.
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Hi stdio,
thank you for the suggestion, I'm new to the dns323 but not new to computers. I'm not really sure where I would type in that command, I would assume it would have to be on the nas itself ? To do that I would also assume I need to telnet/ssh to the nas ? To do that I would assume I need to install some type of fun_plug that would allow me to do that? If all my assumptions are correct, and I've completed all the necessary steps, where would I execute the command, root or some other location ?
I apologize for all the newbie questions, I'm not really at a state where I wanted to start funplugging the nas, as you can tell.
Thanks,
Jimmy
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Did you start from scratch? You haven't indicated if you have.
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Nope Jamie, I haven't had a chance to yet.
Thanks,
Jimmy
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Good news the hardware configuration screen no longer shows up. I did a full restore, reset the nas first then I followed the prompts for configuring a raid 1. It worked great, not even one glitch. I'm thinking the cause may have been the way I initially configured the nas to be a stand alone and then later added in a second drive and then reconfigured it for raid 1. Now that I think about it I actually updated the firmware to 1.08 first, then installed the first drive stand alone, copied all my data to it, then installed the second drive, where it prompted me to configure (I choose raid 1) and it began sync'ing up the drives. I wonder if it was because of the firmware upgrade ? Either way I just got me new gigabit switch from newegg and my transfers speeds are as low as 10mb and as high as 18mb (using jumbo frame), so my systems coming along nicely and I couldn't be happier. My next step is to look into fun_plugging my nas, no rush though.
Thanks again everyone for your help.
Jimmy
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Great, we love success stories. :D
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That makes two of us ;D , Do you think you could point me in the direction of fun_plug tutorial or anything that might help me on my venture?
Thanks,
Jimmy
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http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:fun_plug (http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:fun_plug)