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[DufferDan]

I added a second drive to my DNS 323. I tried to format it as JBOD. I am guessing thatas the formatting was going on, the computer went to sleep and the action was never completer.

in the meantime (this was Wednesday evening), one of the kids started using my computer and closed everything down.

So, I come in this AM and one disk indicator is amber (pink) and the right side is blue (good, I think),

So I re-open the utility and try to reformat both disks again. I get called away, the damn computer goes to sleep and I come back to see formatting is stalled at 96% complete.

The formatting does not finish and won't re-start, so I log back into the DNS and it tells me the disks are in wrong, shut it down and swap bays for each drive. I do so, and when I start up again, it gives me the same message. Oh, and both drive indicator lights are blue...

Now, I am essentially locked out of doing anything with the 323 as I can't access the configuration pages. Is there some way I can force the thing to completely reset to factory defaults and format the drives again?

I have 1 Seagate 1TB drive and 1 Hitatchi 1TB drive in it.

All help appreciated.

[fordem]

There's a reset button on the back of it - but I think you'll need to connect the disks to a PC and clear whatever partitions are on them to get it going again.

One last thing - there is only one reason to use a JBOD configuration - if you have a single file or database larger than the capacity of a single disk (and if you have files or databases larger than 1GB, then the DNS-323 is really not the device for you), failure of either disk will most likely result in loss of all your data, consider using two standard volumes instead.

[DufferDan]

Thanks, there isn't any data left on the drives, so no biggie there.

What I ubderstand from what you have said is remove the drives form the DNS, place in my PC (Apple) , reformat in the PC and then re-insert into the DNS and start over? I think I can handle that. Let me know if I misinterpreted this.

Thanks

[fordem]

not format - remove partitions - in the apple (mac) world there may be a different term, but I have no idea what it is