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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: userzweig on November 12, 2010, 02:40:15 PM
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I think that my bay 1 will not work right with 2 tb drives, but bay 2 is OK.
Details:
I've had a dns-323 for about 18 months. I had 2x1tb wd10eads for most of the time, with no problems, but recently I upgraded to 2x2 tb wd20eads drives. After about a month, bay 1 got weird - the drive in it would not mount easily, and it failed the scan. I swapped the drives as a test, and discovered that the drive in bay 1 always failed the scan after a minute or so, and the drive in bay 2 passed, so it was clearly the bay that had gone bad. Fortunately, I can still get data off either bay.
Then, I put in an old 1tb drive in bay 1, and the scan test is working fine!
Any ideas what this means?
Bruce
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There should be no difference between the connections. I would guess that you have a physical connection issue.
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Here is another weirdness:
I have a 1 tb in the right bay, but the DNS-323 calls it volume_2.
I have a 2 tb drive in the left bay, and the dns calls it volume_1
This is in standard format. firmware 1.09, fresh install, factory reset.
You would expect it to be the other way around, wouldn't you?
To repeat, the dns-323 calls the 1tb in the right bay volume_2.
Here is the status page:
HARD DRIVE INFO :
Total Drive(s): 2
Volume Name: Volume_1
Volume Type: Standard
Total Hard Drive Capacity: 1967954 MB <<------ this is 2 tb drive, labeled volume_1
Used Space: 1031630 MB
Unused Space: 936324 MB
Volume Name: Volume_2
Volume Type: Standard
Total Hard Drive Capacity: 983454 MB <<----------- 1 tb drive is called volume_2
Used Space: 633815 MB
Unused Space: 349638 MB
PHYSICAL DISK INFO :
Slot Vendor Model Serial Number Size
Right WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1 WD-WCAU46811693 1000 G <<---- 1 tb drive is in RIGHT bay
Left WDC WD20EADS-00S2B0 WD-WCAVY4478417 2000 G <<--- this is 2 tb drive in LEFT bay
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For starters when looking at the 323 from the front, the right bay is HDD1 and left is HDD2 (reveresed from what you'd expect) which might explain your findings.
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Thanks, I found the answer here:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=15107.msg88361#msg88361