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Title: Degraded Drive on DNS-323
Post by: askolits on September 15, 2010, 02:38:08 PM

My DNS-323 fell over and the right drive was orange. I powered down and restarted. It was flashing Blue for awhile and is now solid blue. I though maybe it fixed itself but the status says it's still degraded. Is there a utility I need to run to rebuild the drive, or will it do it automatically?
Is there a new Firmware that may have a rebuild utility?

DLINK Firmware: 1.05
Volume Name:  Volume_1
Volume Type:  RAID 1
Sync Time Remaining:  Degraded
Total Hard Drive Capacity:  736656 MB
Used Space:  696788 MB
Unused Space:  39868 MB

Title: Re: Degraded Drive on DNS-323
Post by: dosborne on September 15, 2010, 03:36:40 PM

There is a manual rebuild option in the web admin console you can use if you have not turned on auto-rebuild.

Tools -> Raid -> Auto-Rebuild Configuration  [Manually Rebuild Now]

Title: Re: Degraded Drive on DNS-323
Post by: fordem on September 15, 2010, 06:08:33 PM

I don't remember which firmware version that rebuild was added in, but I have a feeling it wasn't there in 1.05.

Title: Re: Degraded Drive on DNS-323
Post by: OlegMZ on September 15, 2010, 07:54:32 PM

Just went through this procedure. Firmware 1.08. One of drives in RAID1 (infamous WD green 15EARS) failed. Rebuild failed as well. SMART utility showed bad sectors and suggested RMA.
When a brand new replacemet HDD arrived I popped it into the box, started it and was asked to format the drive. After I pressed Format button almost immediately (at 1%) 'Format failed error 107' message appeared.
Whatever I tried to do - swap drives, skip initial prompt and start format manually - the result was the same :-(.
Finally I detached "good" HDD, and started NAS with new empty drive only. NAS recognized it and offered to format it as a single. I ageed and it started formatting it with no problems. At 30% I ABORTED format, shutdown NAS, plugged back first healthy drive and restarted the box. Now NAS recognized back that there is a degraded RAID, showed second (new) drive as FAILED (purple) and again suggested to format it. This time format went through with no problem and with the same delay at 98% as it was when I formatted the drives for the very first time. It took about 5 hours to fully synchronize the array. I guess it would be faster if I disabled uPnP media server prior to it.
Hope my experience helps someone.

Title: Re: Degraded Drive on DNS-323
Post by: askolits on September 16, 2010, 10:36:16 PM

fordem:

My firmware doesn't have the rebuild option. I'll get the lastest firmware and try it.

Thanks,

John

Title: Re: Degraded Drive on DNS-323
Post by: askolits on September 17, 2010, 04:04:50 AM

Looks like the new firmware did the trick.
I was abe to manually rebuild the second drive and now all is well.

Thanks!

John  :D

Title: Re: Degraded Drive on DNS-323
Post by: tentimes on September 18, 2010, 12:32:19 PM

What drives are in it?