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Author Topic: need some help adding a drive to an empty slot  (Read 3095 times)

belowzeros

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need some help adding a drive to an empty slot
« on: November 04, 2009, 02:34:57 PM »

hey folks,

I have a few DNS-323.  One of them has a 500gb and an empty slot, 1.06.

So I wanted to put a 1.5tb in the empty slot.  I opened the cover, put in the new 1.5 (right side, left has the 500gb) and it prompted and formatted ok.  Old drive wasn't erased.  I just want a Standard config, no JBOD or raid.

But the problem is I can't access the new 1.5 when the 500gb is in there.  The admin says I have two drives installed but for drive info there is only a dash, only the 500 shows all model and serial info properly.

I pulled the 500gb and all info from the 1.5 shows up like you would expect.


any idea what to do?  hoping I don't have to backup the 500gb and format them together...
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ECF

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Re: need some help adding a drive to an empty slot
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2009, 08:44:41 AM »

Did you try the drive an another unit?
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belowzeros

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Re: need some help adding a drive to an empty slot
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2009, 03:00:34 PM »

no I didn't.  i didn't try another unit because the others are Raid1 so no option to break up those sets.  This was the only unit I have that was a single drive.
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: need some help adding a drive to an empty slot
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2009, 03:59:03 PM »

Remove the two drives as a set from one of the RAID-1 units and put this drive into it for a test.  You can reset the unit to defaults and put the RAID drives back in.
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