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#1 2008-02-12 07:39:20
- fickle
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- From: Melbourne, Australia
- Registered: 2007-09-10
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drivers for 323 HD format
hi guys,
i finally got the 2x 500gb HD's today
so this weekend, im going to start the migration to the larger HDs via RAID1
i have concluded the following
remove all current HD's in the 323..
update firmware on the 323 to current 1.04 beta
stick in new HD's and format as RAID1
use one of the 200's and plug it into a PC and hopefully obtain drivers on windows to read the disks
then do robocopy to transfer to the new HD's
the steps above sound logical, and feasable.. only question is .. are there such drivers?
so open suggestions on the method & drivers
cheers
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#2 2008-02-12 07:42:11
- mig
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- From: Seattle, WA
- Registered: 2006-12-21
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Re: drivers for 323 HD format
fickle wrote:
only question is .. are there such drivers?
Last edited by mig (2008-02-12 07:43:11)
DNS-323 • 2x Seagate Barracuda ES 7200.10 ST3250620NS 250GB SATAII (3.0Gb/s) 7200RPM 16MB • RAID1 • FW1.03 • ext2
Fonz's v0.3 fun_plug http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug
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#3 2008-02-12 07:43:25
- fickle
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Re: drivers for 323 HD format
wow, goto love that fast response .. fastest i have seen yet .. cheers mig
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#4 2008-02-12 11:27:31
- kentsu
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Re: drivers for 323 HD format
Hi,
I take it that your existing drives are formatted as raid1 too.
I am not sure whether those FS drivers for windows can handle raid1 formatted ext2 disks. That is, the disks do not appear as normal normal ext2 disks but they contain a logical raid1 volume.
I re-created raid1 on my desktop when I had to recover precious stuff after dns-323 device became unresponsive:
- took the disks out of dns-323
- installed linux on IDE disk on my desktop
- installed a SATA disk from dns-323 inside my desktop. one should do as you are using raid1.
- booted my desktop to linux
- installed mdadm package
- used mdadm to create new raid1 device /dev/md0 using that ext2 partition on the dns-323 disk (mine was /dev/sda2)
- mdadm noticed that the given partition was part of an existing array and asked whether I wanted to use it.
- I gave 'yes' as an answer.
After this I could mount the raid1 normally and access all my files. At that point I copied them over to another disk.
// edit 12.02.2008 11:29: You might be able to pull this off with one of linux live cds too.
Last edited by kentsu (2008-02-12 11:29:03)
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#5 2008-02-12 22:25:47
- mealto
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- Registered: 2008-02-02
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Re: drivers for 323 HD format
I have successfully used FS Driver to access files from Raid 1 hard drives (ext2) in Windows XP Home (via a USB to SATA adapter). Just don't choose "Auto assign drive letter". For some reason, unchecking this made everything work.
It's always best to test it out before you roll things out for real world use.
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