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[userzweig]

I think that my bay 1 will not work right with 2 tb drives, but bay 2 is OK.

Details:
I've had a dns-323 for about 18 months.  I had 2x1tb wd10eads for most of the time, with no problems, but recently I upgraded to 2x2 tb wd20eads drives.  After about a month, bay 1 got weird - the drive in it would not mount easily, and it failed the scan.  I swapped the drives as a test, and discovered that the drive in bay 1 always failed the scan after a minute or so, and the drive in bay 2 passed, so it was clearly the bay that had gone bad.  Fortunately, I can still get data off either bay.

Then, I put in an old 1tb drive in bay 1, and the scan test is working fine!

Any ideas what this means?

Bruce

[gunrunnerjohn]

There should be no difference between the connections.  I would guess that you have a physical connection issue.

[userzweig]

Here is another weirdness:
I have a 1 tb in the right bay, but the DNS-323 calls it volume_2.
I have a 2 tb drive in the left bay, and the dns calls it volume_1

This is in standard format.  firmware 1.09, fresh install, factory reset.

You would expect it to be the other way around, wouldn't you?

To repeat, the dns-323 calls the 1tb in the right bay volume_2.

Here is the status page:

HARD DRIVE INFO :

Total Drive(s):    2
   
Volume Name:    Volume_1
Volume Type:    Standard
Total Hard Drive Capacity:    1967954 MB   <<------ this is 2 tb drive, labeled volume_1
Used Space:    1031630 MB
Unused Space:    936324 MB
Volume Name:    Volume_2
Volume Type:    Standard
Total Hard Drive Capacity:    983454 MB  <<----------- 1 tb drive is called volume_2
Used Space:    633815 MB
Unused Space:    349638 MB
PHYSICAL DISK INFO :
Slot    Vendor    Model    Serial Number    Size
Right    WDC    WD10EADS-00L5B1    WD-WCAU46811693    1000 G  <<---- 1 tb drive is in RIGHT bay
Left    WDC    WD20EADS-00S2B0    WD-WCAVY4478417    2000 G <<--- this is 2 tb drive in LEFT bay

[jamieburchell]

For starters when looking at the 323 from the front, the right bay is HDD1 and left is HDD2 (reveresed from what you'd expect) which might explain your findings.

[userzweig]

Thanks, I found the answer here:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=15107.msg88361#msg88361