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[garypace]

Hello everybody

Apologies if this is an asinine newbie question but.....

My DNS-321 just arrived - I installed two 1GB WD disks, updated the firmware to the latest from DLink's website (1.01), then used the web interface to select RAID1 and told it to format the drives.

It is now 1 hour later. The web interface still says "wait a moment", and what I take to be progress bars (one directly under the "wait a moment" banner and one under the "format results" banner) are still completely blank.

The firmware update and IP settings etc went smoothly. The status page correctly identified both physical disks. I really wasn't expecting a problem.

Has the format crashed do you think ?

Thanks
Gary

[garypace]

I set the thing up with a static IP, and configured 900GB RAID1 array.

[ECF]

What has happen now? Did you try to reformat yet?

[garypace]

ECF

Thanks for getting back with me.

Yes, it seems that one of my disks was DOA. I re-formatted as separate disks and it completed one with no problem then crashed on the second. I have since tried both disks in each slot, and the problem follows the disk. I'll RMA the disk.

Actually, I think I'll keep the separate disks and use GoodSync to manage redundancy myself. It would be really cool if the disks could be NTFS so I could throw one into a PC and get at the data. I guess the chances of MS putting NTFS into the public domain are slim.

Assuming a new disk fixes my problem, I really like this unit (especially for the price).

If you have a second, could I ask a couple of quick questions :
- Is there any "recycle bin" concept with the EX2 file system ? (that's the file system, right ?)
- Is there any way to rename the volumes ?

Thanks
Gary

[ECF]

There currently is not recycling bin for these volumes and yes it is EXT2.

There also is no way to change the volume names.