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Title: DNS-320 cannot format Seagate Barracude LP 2TB (ST32000542AS)
Post by: daydream on January 11, 2013, 10:08:33 PM

I tried to add the Seagate Barracude LP 2TB (ST32000542AS) as my 2nd HD but it just stuck at "Formatting hard disk" after I select "Format new drive as standard type".  I tried formatting as ext3 using GPARTED but it still want to format it.  I checked system status and show all the harddisk information with tick in the status.   The dns-320 is on firmware 2.0.3

Title: Re: DNS-320 cannot format Seagate Barracude LP 2TB (ST32000542AS)
Post by: sciz on January 12, 2013, 03:25:21 PM

I just put in 2 Seagate Barracuda 2TB (ST2000DM001) formatted fine.

Title: Re: DNS-320 cannot format Seagate Barracude LP 2TB (ST32000542AS)
Post by: daydream on January 12, 2013, 05:36:40 PM

anyone knows if there is anyway for the DNS-320 to accept ext3 harddisk without trying to format it itself?

Title: Re: DNS-320 cannot format Seagate Barracude LP 2TB (ST32000542AS)
Post by: priitv8 on January 13, 2013, 04:04:55 AM

Quote from: daydream on January 12, 2013, 05:36:40 PM

anyone knows if there is anyway for the DNS-320 to accept ext3 harddisk without trying to format it itself?

I think you will need to create a GPT partition map and required partition structure (like allow for a Linux swap partition) on the disk.
Eg. on my DNS-325 (NB! I have RAID-1 configuration) one can see:

root@HomeNAS:~# gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.6.13

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 7BF28D22-BCAE-47CA-9B1D-ABA127DB2666
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 4935069 sectors (2.4 GiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048         1062271   517.7 MiB   8200  Linux swap
   2         2088960      5855602687   2.7 TiB     0700  Linux/Windows data
   4         1062912         2086991   500.0 MiB   0700  Linux/Windows data

Title: Re: DNS-320 cannot format Seagate Barracude LP 2TB (ST32000542AS)
Post by: daydream on January 13, 2013, 02:17:12 PM

I was able to get it to format by 1st removing the original HD (left), insert the new harddisk (right), do a factory restore.  Then it let me format my new harddisk (right), after that, I just put pack the old harddisk (left).  The only problem is now my new drive become volume_1 and my old harddisk is volume_2.  I have to adjust the P2P setting and remap the network drive.  Everything seems to be normal now. 

Title: Re: DNS-320 cannot format Seagate Barracude LP 2TB (ST32000542AS)
Post by: Zabanitu on November 14, 2013, 12:45:36 PM

Thanks a lot for the tip.
i was stuck to 0% formatting with a Seagate st2000dm001 2TB hard disk that has been put on the right slot.
left slot was already busy with an old 500GB disk and the NAS was working well with it.
i wonder if they tested the device before putting it into mass selling !!!

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