DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Billy, are you trying Raid 1?

2 drives?  What hardware and firmware do you have?  Are you trying to format both drives?

i have the same issue as all others but regardless of what firmware I use and how I reformat, it stops on 94%.  I am using the following drives

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6822152100

and want a mirrored array.  I had one working fine with the original shipping release and loved it so much that I got another one.  I had read about the new f/w so I upgrade them both.  One I use for mirrored the other for storage and what do you know when I upgraded the firmware on the one I inteded to do mirroring, I have the 94% lockup issue....

I tried Balnes approach above and it craps out on me, so I did it again, now this time under status it reads that I have 0Mb total HD capacity and 0kb used space with 1807Mb unused space.....

I used to think the world of my NAS, now that I upgraded f/w....I think I am stuck with two bricks that only hold drives, not do what I was lead to believe they would....

I guess I should have left well enough alone(even if it may not have actually been working correctly in the first place)

This is a known problem, but I thought this was gone with newer firmware?? Perhaps its a difference between US and EU firmware 1.05?

However this was the case before, quoting my own old message.

"I reset the box to default factory settings.  Inserted 2x750 hard disks and the format only ever gets to 94% and then it halts.  If you try to set it up again it does the same thing over and over."

It seems this could be explained when formatting an already FAT32 formatted disk. Solution format a disk without even a partion table, or upgrade to firmware 1.04.55 or newer where this is fixed.

It seems a good practice with DNS-323 is to ALWAYS use blank discs blank of even partionioning.

This is even more important when trying to resync a RAID 1 setup with a new exchanged drive, either because You had a crash on one drive and need to exchange it - or more likely that You have three drives and use one for external backup. If You don´t blank that external drive before putting it back - Yr RAID might resync with the old data....again D-link says this use is not recommended, but it seems to work if You always remember to blank the external drive before reusing it."

My belief is that Your discs where not unpartioned when You tried to format them. Perhaps they where used or had a broken first attempt to format them?

Use "fdisk" or something similar to get rid of the partition when the disk is inserted in a WinXP machine f.ex.

Last edited by Nisken (2008-06-07 22:17:21)

thanks for the help guys....whatever it is doing, I want to think that it is doing it consistently since I have done this on 2 different occasions recently.  After I find that it doesnt go as planned or desired, I remove the drives and hook them up via a USB to adapter to my computer to delete partitions and do a quick format then try all over again.  Everytime that I have done this, it looks pretty close to the same thing I have had before.  A 500Meg "healthy partition"(the way windows XP Pro sees it) is created each time and the rest is unallocated....

I jsut reset the unit to default specs and sm trying this all over again...

I have been reading your stuff bq041 and I will probably try that but I will need some assistance in installing ffp installaed(as i don't even know what it is) and then go from there...

I will send word back later!
Thx again....

KW

I stopped doing the quick formatting and still nothing.....

When I reset the unit to default does it clear all the stuff stored in its memory(i.e. thinking that it knows the drives) I am going to reset and do the scenario that Balnes did above to get two individually same size formatted units and from there will wait on the walk through. (Or at least this way I will have one unit done)

Currently I am using f/w 1.04

How do you telnet into your unit?  I have used telnneting at work through a nice gui but I wouldn't know where to start on a personal item since it probably isnt as user friendly.  I am a structural engineer by trade and all my (as Napolean Dynamite would say) "Nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills,  computer hacking skills" all came from additional education outside of the classroom.  I have a grasp on what to do and will follow direction but may need to be taught!

Thanks guys

Ok I finally have one of the two drives close enough for "horseshoes and handgrenades"  I reset the system to default and then wiped the drives in windows to "unallocated"  When I tried Balnes appraoch  I got one of the drives to 696Gig free(which I understand for a 750Gb drive this is close to what it should be since a 1Tb drive would read right at 940Gb of usuable space.) Funny thing when I go into the GUI and it recognizes the drive is shows 737 Gb free.....so my question is, where is the other 41Gb gone to?

I am trying to get the other drive(which incidently has been an issue all along but checked out as fine with no disk errors inisitially) to format to match the one that does work.

Anyway, I will wiki ffp and then do that and check back in....

I have only been trying muliple configurations to try to get this thing to work and I know that I have been doing one disk only many times but I finally got one back to where it needs to be.  In your opinion bq041 which is more "safer" and reliable on this unit? "True" RAID1 or as some people have described it "the poor mans version" of RAID which uses scripts to auto backup the thing from one drive to the next at preset times?  I am not a "gotta have it" type of person with RAID as this unit is just an additional backup for family photos, home videos, movies, etc..... As long as I have another source of redundancy I am fine by that but I want it to be stable first and foremost. When I was running at f/w 1.02
and I had my array, all things seemed good and the unit didn't give me any problems at all....

Anyway, I am putty in your hands oh wise one.....

Kdoggwiley wrote:

When I tried Balnes appraoch  I got one of the drives to 696Gig free(which I understand for a 750Gb drive this is close to what it should be since a 1Tb drive would read right at 940Gb of usuable space.) Funny thing when I go into the GUI and it recognizes the drive is shows 737 Gb free.....so my question is, where is the other 41Gb gone to?

The DNS will set aside 2 partitions more than what you are using.  Partition 1 will be used for swap space and partition 4 will be used for configuration files.  Also, your drives may not actually be 750GB drives, that is just a nominal number.  The actual amount of space may vary, even possibly between identical drives.  Now, the amount you are talking about is excessive.  I would guess there is either an error, or there is an extra partition on them that you don't know about.

Kdoggwiley wrote:

well both are registered by my unit now as 686Gigs total and 686 free.... where as the unit sees both as 737 Gigs free

I'm confused.  Which is it, 686 or 737?  Where are you looking at this info, the web admin tool?  737 sounds about right.  My WD 750GB comes in at 737847 MB, or 719 GB.

ffp is here: http://dns323.kood.org/howto:ffp

Last edited by bq041 (2008-06-08 23:12:58)

It seems that with 1 drive you have it going.  We'll start there.  Make sure the unit is booted up with only one drive in the DNS in the left slot.  Make sure it is the one with the working fun_plug.  (You mentiond that you got the right slot drive working.  Put it in the left slot.  The first drive is the left, and the second is the right, opposite of what you called them in your post.  This may be why the ffp did not work the first time.)

First, copy the ffp.log file from the DNS and post it here on the site.  This is to verify the ffp is set-up and running properly.

Start up putty and put in the ip address of your DNS box, also make sure telnet is selected. See the attached screenshot.  Click open and you should get a window with the symbols "/ #" in it.  This is your shell prompt.  Keep in mind, it take a little bit after a reboot for the telnet application to start, so if the window pops up and disappears, wait a minute and try again.

Once you have made it this far, push in the second drive (right bay) (yes, with the power on).  Once all the lights stop flashing you will type:

/ # fdisk /dev/sdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 48641.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help):

Now hit "p" and enter.  You should get a list similar to this:

Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400087375360 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdb1               1          66      530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb2             131       48561   389022007+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4              67         130      514080  83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Command (m for help):

If there are no partitions, in the list (/dev/sdb1...etc) then we can start by creating them.  If there are some like in this list, you will have to delete them first.  To delete them:
1) press d and hit enter
2) press 1 (for sdb1)
3) repeat 1 and 2 for each partition on the unit (sdb1-sdb4)

Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 1

Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 2

Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 4

Command (m for help):

To create the new partitions:
1) press n and hit enter
2) select p for primary
3) select 1 for the first partition
4) type 1 and hit enter for the start block
5) type 66 and hit enter for the end block
6) hit t and enter
7) (I removed this as you will not need this step)
8) type 82 and hit enter for setting partition 1 to swap
I'm truncating the rest of the commands, you should have it by now.
9) n
10) p
11) 4     Partition #
12) 67   Start block
13) 130   End block
14) n
15) p
16) 2
17) 131
18) Hit enter for the default.

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-48641, default 1): 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-48641, default 48641): 66

Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): 82
Changed system type of partition 1 to 82 (Linux swap)

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 4
First cylinder (67-48641, default 67): 67
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (67-48641, default 48641): 130

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (131-48641, default 131): Using default value 131
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (131-48641, default 48641): Using default value 48641

Command (m for help):

now you can hit p again and check your table.  Mine looks like this:

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400087375360 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdb1               1          66      530113+ 82 Linux Swap
/dev/sdb2             131       48641   389664607+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4              67         130      514080  83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Command (m for help):

Now, typw w and hit enter.  This will save the table.  I will make a second post for formatting the drive.

Last edited by bq041 (2008-06-09 00:11:36)

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1 other thing about your drive space question above.  When formatting in Linux, 5% of each partition is saved for the super user, unless otherwise specified.  That may be your discrepency.

I do not know.  I have not gotten to testing this.  I do not think so, or otherwise it would want to reformat afterwords.  The hd_magic_num file (where it stores it) is also not in the defaults directory.  I will try it and let everyone know.

I am guessing that this is the log file(even though I saw no extension on the file)....

I made it through the first routine of fdsiking the drives(which was simpler than what I thought it would be since we are working in linux.....(I be's a linux nub!)

The second drive is giving me some issues ....hmmm but from the GUI it shows it as having a partition and I have also looked to make sure that it has the ffp installed on it correctly....

More later....

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