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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-320 => Topic started by: fallout2 on July 25, 2016, 10:58:50 PM
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Hello
In 320 model i have 2 discs in RAID 1. If i took 1 disc and connect it to computer , directly in case or via usb dock station i get message "you need to format disc before using it" . In disc management it shows as RAW partition with all free space. When i return it to 320 case it recognize it as new free disk and i click manual rebuild after it start to copy data form 2nd disk. Why is that happening and how can i connect disk to a computer without that happening ? thx
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You can't do that. When the drive was formatted for RAID, it is setup in that format which is not supported by a PC. Also when you attempt to put the drive in to a PC, you can break the RAID configuration thus data can be lost. The drives needs to remain in the 320 as to not break the RAID configuration and data can be accessed.
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=52509.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=52509.0)
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Hello
In 320 model i have 2 discs in RAID 1. If i took 1 disc and connect it to computer , directly in case or via usb dock station i get message "you need to format disc before using it" . In disc management it shows as RAW partition with all free space. When i return it to 320 case it recognize it as new free disk and i click manual rebuild after it start to copy data form 2nd disk. Why is that happening and how can i connect disk to a computer without that happening ? thx
As stated the format of the HD is different to those used in standard PC setups
The question that should be asked is why would you want to do this?
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how can i connect disk to a computer without that happening ?
Simple answer is that you can't.
As Philip asks, why would you want to do this? Even if your disks were setup as RAID 1 you would need, 1) a USB/SATA adapter or caddy and 2) either an installable file system (IFS) or some software that can read the Ext2/3 file system that the disks are formatted with. Then, what you are doing is only recommended as a recovery measure if the unit has died and there is no backup.
Taking a disk out of a Linux based NAS box and allowing ANY windows operating system direct access to it will destroy any data that it might contain. Linux file system and windows file system are totally incomparable and require an IFS or some other software to act as a translation layer between them.