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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: keiron on May 14, 2011, 03:05:54 AM
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Hi
One of my hard drives suddenly no longer showed up when I turned the 323 on - I was getting a white light on that side of the box. I opened the 323, re-seated the drive and turned the machine back on. Now when i go to the config page, it wants to format the drive!
Drive would show up under Physical Disk Info, but not under Hard Drive info
(https://sites.google.com/a/throssell.com/keiron/blog/dns/Capture34.jpg)
That is the last thing I want to do with a terabyte of data on it. (No lectures on backups please. This is not vital data, but stuff I would rather not have to download again. :-X ..)
Why the heck does it want to format it!!??
NB - Firmware 1.06 (if it ain't broke...)
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The question perhaps should be why was it showing a "white" light?
A white LED indication is undocumented and appears to be the result of both blue & amber LEDs being on simultaenously - and I suspect is the result of some sort of failure (that's why the amber light turns on).
Failed drive - file system apparently no longer recognized & possibly corrupt - hence the prompt to reformat?
Oh - please consider the above to be just me thinking aloud than any statement of fact.
As requested I will avoid the lecture on backup - try connecting to a PC with either linux or Windows and a linux file system driver (there are several) and see if you can reach the data that way.
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Cheers for that...
Will have to trawl over to a mates house for his linux box. only laptops here nowadays!
I do wonder why something like this would suddenly happen - unless it IS a drive failure. There is no reason really why the file system would suddenly stop working, surely? Dlink - any help here??