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Author Topic: Formatting Sticks at 94%  (Read 3960 times)

paintballer4lfe

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Formatting Sticks at 94%
« on: October 16, 2009, 04:20:30 PM »
I recently baught this item, literally got it today, and i went to format as 2 hard drives into one, then i tried all of them, but when i try to format at all, my formating gets stuck at 94% anyone got anything i can try to fix this or info??

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D-Link Multimedia

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Re: Formatting Sticks at 94%
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 04:30:46 PM »
Which firmware version are you running? Have you tried just a single drive in it?

Were these drives used in something prior and could possibly have existing partitions on them?
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paintballer4lfe

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Re: Formatting Sticks at 94%
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2009, 09:00:07 PM »
Quote from: D-Link Multimedia on October 16, 2009, 04:30:46 PM
Which firmware version are you running? Have you tried just a single drive in it?

Were these drives used in something prior and could possibly have existing partitions on them?

im guessing the newest but i dont know how to check that, and i havent tried singles, but it formats the drives fine, but it just sticks at 94 and wont continue, and no these are brand new drives just got them today
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JoeSchmuck

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Re: Formatting Sticks at 94%
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2009, 07:51:17 AM »
Quote from: paintballer4lfe on October 16, 2009, 09:00:07 PM
im guessing the newest but i dont know how to check that, and i havent tried singles, but it formats the drives fine, but it just sticks at 94 and wont continue, and no these are brand new drives just got them today

Odds are your firmware is 1.00 so you should pull your drives out and install firware 1.03 (if you found this place, you should be able to find the latest firmware).  Once that's complete go ahead and install one drive and format it.  You will need to choose EXT2 or EXT3 format, EXT2 offers roughly a 25% improvement in speed where EXT3 provides better data safety.  My preference is EXT3 but make up your own mind.  If you format the drive okay, turn off power and install the second drive.  Turn on power and format it as well.

Hopefully all will go well.

-Joe
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