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

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Quando compro' il mio DNS-323 qui nei stati uniti, aveva il firmware 1.01.  L'aggiornamento al 1.02 riformattato i dischi completamente. Ho paura provare 1.03 perche' non voglio perdere nessun informazione... e' difficile salvare quasi 1TB senza comprare ancora altri dischi!  Magari c'e' qualcuno qui sui forums che sa se il 1.03 riformatta i dischi? 

il file per fare L'aggiornamento sia trovato al http://support.dlink.com/products/view. … =DNS%2D323 - non so se funzione con i DNS-323 nel'europa.

Translation (I haven't spoken or written Italian in 5 years... so I THINK I wrote):
When I bought my DNS-323 here in the united states, it had firmware 1.01. The upgrade to 1.02 completely reformatted the disks. I fear trying the 1.03 update because I don't want to lose information.  It is difficult to backup almost 1TB without buying another disk!  Perhaps there is someone on the forums who knows if the 1.03 upgrade reformats the drives?

The upgrade file is found at http://support.dlink.com/products/view. … =DNS%2D323 - though I don't know if these updates work with the european DNS-323.

Ok, I am not a pro with the 323, but here are my 2 cents :
I am french and instaled the 1.03 US firmware without any problem (even if that removed my garanty, but there is not a chance that if I bring back my 323 to the store I bought it under garanty they would check the firmware version)

I dont think that if you make a 'restore factory default', the original bios would be reloaded. That implies that the 323 has a second memory with the 1.01 bios burned in it, and I dont think this is a feature the 323 has. So factory default isjust a reset of the settings, not the whole firmware.

As for the upgrade from 1.02 to 1.03, I am not sure the drives would be formatted if you choosed the ext2 option to begin with.

So I would say, go 1.03 but make a backup before!

Last edited by guile2912 (2007-05-11 16:11:33)

Hi,
I am french too, and like guile2912 I also upgraded from firmware 1.01b to 1.03 last week.
My disks were initially formated in ext2 (not ext3).

The firmware upgrade did NOT killed the data. (Note that I first tested it with spare drives to be sure)

BUT THE FIRMWARE UPGRADE 1.01->1.03 DID KILLED THE RAID CONFIGURATION in my case.

Meaning I had previously a big raid1 unit, and after upgrading the firmware, all I got  was 2 NON-synchronized drives containing the same data,  which was definitively not good to me because I needed the mirroring security.

Then I had to transfer all the data to a third disk, rebuild the raid1 and transfer back the data onto the recontructed raid, which can be extremely time consuming.

Still, I consider upgrading to 1.03 provides with good improvment and does not regret it at all.

cali34,

Last edited by cali34 (2007-05-13 20:41:17)