I'd appreciate some guidance or opinion about a problem I'm having with a HD in a DNS-320.
Disk in question is a Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 Coolspin 2TB; I've put a pair of new ones in the NAS, where both disks format OK (I'm using 'Standard' configuration). Both volumes are seen by the browser interface Disk Management, System Status, etc. as well as applications like the Web File Server, and the FTP/HTTP Downloads - I can upload files to both volumes OK.
But I can only add one volume to the list of shares. When I try to add the other, I can choose all the relevant options, and everything seems OK, but then the volume just never shows up in the list of shares, and nor can I access it from a remote computer.
I've installed Fonz's Fun Plug, and can telnet into the DNS-320, and I've manually added the missing volume details to smb.conf. This enables me to mount the volume on a remote computer, where it seems to behave OK, but it still doesn't show up in the shares list, and if I make any changes to the list, it gets removed from smb.conf.
I've swapped the disks around, re-formatted several times and reset the NAS back to factory defaults several times. The problem is with one specific disk; System Status -> Hard Drive Info says both are healthy, but when I run the SMART test, one of them fails, though the log doesn't seem to indicate any critical problems. Mounting the disks in a computer so I can see the full log, both of the disks are, in fact, rated as a 'Pass', but the suspect one gets a non-critical query regarding 54 Current Pending Sector errors (Attribute 197); I'm not sure if 54 is a number to be concerned about, or if it's trivial, nor if it would have any bearing on this problem.
Anybody got any ideas? Is the disk duff? Incompatible? Or is there a known problem with the NAS? Anything?
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