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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: DRadlin on April 01, 2009, 07:03:29 AM

Title: Change from Raid1 to two separate drives.
Post by: DRadlin on April 01, 2009, 07:03:29 AM

I have never been successfull with a Raid1 config in my DNS-323.  I give up and just want to run the the unit with two separate drives.

Currently I have only a drive in the left bay and am running in a broken Raid1 configuration.

Without loosing data is there a way convert the left drive to an individual disk (not part of a Raid) and add a drive to the right bay as a separate individual disk?

I searched the group and found only one discussion on breaking a Raid, and it suggested that I remove the drives push the reset button, and reinstall the drives which will trick the DNS-323 into thinking the drives are individual.  Though there was not consensus as to this being proper or adviseable.

I'll move the data off the DNS-323 and back on if I have too, but I'd rather not if I need not.

So then, is there a D-Link sanctioned approach to doing converting from Raid 1 to a standard individual disk configuration.

Thanks.

D

Title: Re: Change from Raid1 to two separate drives.
Post by: coxwain on April 01, 2009, 07:26:43 AM

I will give you the standard Dlink answer

back up data
reset to default
reformat drives

If you want to get real adventurous press the reset button on the back of the unit too


Seriously, if you can access all data on the single drive from winxp this is what I would suggest

Disconnect the drive that has all the data
Hook the disconnected drive to your PC
Boot to a Linux operating system and see if all the data is there and can be read.
If the data looks good and can be accessed.
turn your system off and then hook up the other drive to your DNS323 and format it for the single drive

then reboot to linux again  and copy the files from the drive you pulled from the dns323 that has the data across the network to the dns323 drive.
It will take a lot of time

http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download
is what I used and you can use the program as a boot only CD so that you dont have to figure out how to install a 2nd operating system on you computer, your computer will boot to Linux CD without the need of your hard drive