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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-321 => Topic started by: kcan3000 on November 13, 2010, 01:25:13 PM
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Currently running single Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB as Volume 1 in standard config in a 2 month old DNS-321 - trying to add Volume 2 - identical drive. After installing the new drive and booting up I do not receive a format prompt. When trying to access the admin page via browser or Easy Search, it hangs, either way. I have tried restore factory defaults several times. Running static ip so no conflict.
When I remove the new Volume 2, I can then access admin page/configuration without problem although it eventually hangs while running through any configuring. My first though is a defective drive. However, when I first received the 321 I set up it up with 2 x 1 TB Spinpoints. Vol 2 went bad after a few weeks. So this new drive is a replacement for that. Is there an issue the the 321 as opposed to the drive itself?
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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Test the drive off-line on a PC with the Samsung diagnostics.
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Is it possible the new drive has partitions or data already on it that is casuing issues?
Try deleting all partitions on the new drive via some other system (yes, a pain).
If that fails, try writing junk data to the drive. I'm wondering if it has some boot block info that is being processed by the dns-321?
Good luck,
-craig
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Thanks for the input. The drive was new - not formatted. I pulled this drive and formatted in a pc - no problem, so any potential partition etc is gone, if in fact that was the problem. After reinstalled in the 321, same issue - no prompt. Get to Web UI but will not load config page. When I pull the drive and just run single volume, again can load config page, but again eventually hangs. Thoughts?