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

Hello,

I had a hell of day to upgrade my dns-313 from an old hitachi 320GB disk to a brand new Samsung of 1.5 TB.

I had a fully working situation with the old Hitachi, but a fixed "green light" when tryng installing the new disk.

The new disk of 1.5TB was working via USB, but the 313 was simply not starting in "ethernet mode".

I mean... the 313 simply was not reachable via 192.168.0.32,  nor via dhcp, nor in any other case.

I tried all the things found here on these forum (single cable dhcp, low ip range etc), but nothing was working.

but i discovered that having the 320GB disk it is possible to replicate via DD the partitions and get the new disk up and running.

what i did is:

- startup a linux macihne (I had around one ubuntu
- mount both the disk (old one and new one) via usb
- recreate the partitions on the new disk paying attention to the correct order (first time I created the NTFS as last and all the partitions numbers got screwed and system was not booting), meaning:
         \dev\sdd1  --> 518MB linux swap
         \dev\sdd2  --> 1.5 TB NTFS labeled USER_DATA
         \dev\sdd3  --> 518MB ext2 labeled SYSTEM
         \dev\sdd4  --> 518MB ext2 labeled DATA_BASE

creating the NTFS of the right size is the most difficult part, because I didn't know how big I was able to create it to keep enough space for the system and data_base partitions


then I did some shell commands to duplicate the partitions:

sudo dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/sdd1
note for partition 3 you just need to format it as NTFS
sudo dd if=/dev/sdc3 of=/dev/sdd3
sudo dd if=/dev/sdc4 of=/dev/sdd1


then there was to set the bootable flag on /dev/sdd3:

fdisk /dev/sdd
p --> lists all partitions
a --> enter menu to set bootble flag
3--> set bootflag on partition 3
w--> writes the updated table (if you forget this it wont save the modification...)
p--> lets check the differences...



Hope this helps someone

bye
maurizio