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#1 2010-08-10 17:17:29
- dundalkbob
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CH3SNAS with WD20EARS
I'm looking to replace my hard-disks in the CH3SNAS box with two 2.0TB WD SATA/64MB Cache WD20EARS drives.
I have upgraded my firmware to 1.05 - which is the latest?
Now when I turn on my Conceptronic box and login as I get to the following page:
HARD DRIVE CONFIGURATION:
Select a RAID type: Standard (Individual Disks)
JBOD (Linear - Combines Both Disks)
RAID 0 (Striping - Best Performance)
RAID 1 (Mirroring - Keeps Data Safe)
HARD DRIVE SETTINGS:
12233
HARD DRIVE SETTINGS:
The replacement hard drive does not have enough capacity to support the RAID 1 volume. Please insert a higher capacity hard drive.
Vendor Model Serial Number Size
WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 WD-WCAVY2111531 2000 GB
WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 WD-WCAVY2126418 2000 GB
If I select an option and click next the screen remains on the formatting please wait page and formating never actually starts. I have left this overnight just to double check but that status bar does not change or even go to 0%.
Any tips would be appreciated. I'm looking to use the Disks as RAID1
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#2 2010-08-10 17:35:41
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Re: CH3SNAS with WD20EARS
dundalkbob wrote:
I'm looking to replace my hard-disks in the CH3SNAS box with two 2.0TB WD SATA/64MB Cache WD20EARS drives.
dundalkbob wrote:
I have upgraded my firmware to 1.05 - which is the latest?
Latest is 1.05b5, you can download it from Conceptronic's website.
dundalkbob wrote:
If I select an option and click next the screen remains on the formatting please wait page and formating never actually starts. I have left this overnight just to double check but that status bar does not change or even go to 0%.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Check that the disks are completely blank. If you have made a partition on them, the CH3SNAS might have problems with it. It happened to me once, and I had to manually wipe the drive's information (at least a few hundred of MBs from the beginning) in order for the CH3SNAS to recognize them an partition/format them correctly.
To wipe the drive's information I just used a normal computer/laptop, a SATA-2-USB adapter, and an Ubuntu CD. Booted the CD, went to a terminal, and did a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX (wait a few minutes, then pressed control-c). Be careful of which /dev/sdX device you're using!!!
Also remember that you may want to choose what to do regarding the 4k partition alignment feature of the WDxxEARS drives...
CH3SNAS • 2x Seagate Barracuda ES 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB SATAII (3.0Gb/s) 7200RPM 32MB (Rev: SD1A) • Individual volumes • FW1.05 (Firmware Date: 12/31/2008) • ext2
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