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#1 2009-01-14 05:07:10
- Locri
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Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
Hello all... I just bought a shiny new DNS-323 and two Seagate 1.5TB HDs to go with it. I was rather hoping this would be a smooth setup but it didn't go as planned. Every time I start the system up and try to format the drives (either one or both, I've tried it all three ways) it always gets stuck at 94% and locks up.
Originally, I thought it was because I had accidentally tried to format the drives (stupidly) with the 1.04 firmware and maybe that had messed it up as it got stuck at 94% after upgrading to 1.06 and trying to format again. However, after that didn't work I formatted them both under Windows (in hopes to clear out any issues the drives might have incurred) and just used a basic NTFS figuring that the DNS would happily format over it all, but still no luck.
Has anyone else had issues like this? I can't find anything searching the forums or wiki, but I could be using the wrong keywords. I'm going to try formatting them to ext2 on my main computer, but I'd really like it to work properly on the DNS as well.
Thanks!
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#2 2009-01-14 05:15:50
- Locri
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Re: Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
Ok, well I obviously wasn't looking hard enough... I have now found the post about the 94% issue that a few people had, although there doesn't seem to be a specific way to clear it. I'm going to try doing a hardware reset on the DNS and also clear the HDs again, although if anyone has further comment on what I might try, I'd appreciate it.
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#3 2009-01-14 05:18:34
- blahsome
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Re: Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
The DNS-323 works best with hard drives with no partitions at all. Try to connect the hard drives to your PC and delete all partitions. Don't format them at all. Better yet, download the disk management utility from your hard drive manufacturer's website (I'm pretty sure I have used one for Seagate but the name escapes me) and do a quick zero-fill (not full zero-fill, which takes hours) that wipes out partition information.
Also, simply formatting the hard drive to ext2 on your PC is not sufficient to bypass the DNS-323's format process anyway, which actually performs multiple additional steps behind the scene.
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#4 2009-01-14 14:41:34
- kennedy101
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Re: Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
I had the same issue with my hard drives formatting. Indeed it does get "stuck" at 94 percent. I just walked away and came back a few hours later and they were done. Be sure that you update the firmware on the drives too before putting them in the NAS.
DNS 323 (Hardware B1, Firmware 1.06). 2x 1.5TB Seagate HDs.
Chroot Debain (Lenny) on USB (not reloaded). Edna server. USB print server. USB drives added to samba share. All init.d scripts in place.
Future projects: FFP reloaded then chroot on B1 hardware.
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#5 2009-01-14 15:03:20
- fordem
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Re: Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
blahsome wrote:
Better yet, download the disk management utility from your hard drive manufacturer's website (I'm pretty sure I have used one for Seagate but the name escapes me) and do a quick zero-fill (not full zero-fill, which takes hours) that wipes out partition information.
Seagate - SeaTools
Maxtor - PowerMax
WD - Data Lifeguard
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#6 2009-01-15 02:24:11
- Locri
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Re: Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
Thanks for all the replies. After a hard reset and clearing all partitions from both drives, I tested things out by formatting each drive individually. It turns out one drive seems to work perfectly, but the second drive is DOA and won't format properly. Looks like the dead DOA HD was the cause of all the issues.
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#7 2009-01-15 12:51:19
- Iznakurnog
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Re: Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
I had this disappointing 94 % -issue when trying to reformat my RAID1 (150 GB) + JBOD (rest) to RAID1 (400GB) + JBOD (rest)
firmware 1.05 was successfully upgraded to 1.06 not long before. two HDD 1 Tb each
Formatting ALWAYS hangs on 94 % 
((
Issue was resolved by following tricky steps
1) Set formаtting type as standard (2 separate disks configuration)
Result - only one drive was successfully formatted. Second one requests for reformatting every time after reboot. After format ask for reboot and again.
2) Manually delete Volume_1 share via web GUI (there was only that one share by the moment) And ask to reformat all over again as standard (2 separate disks configuration) The operation was successful now but as result I had Volume_1 - 150Gb size and Volume_2 1Tb
3) reformat all over again setting again formаtting type as standard (2 separate disks configuration)
well 2 good separate terabyte volumes now
4) Set formatting type to what I really want - RAID1 (400GB) + JBOD (rest)
smooth fomatting with no issue.
Everything fine and working but so tricky and long way exactly not what I expected from new firmware 1.06
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#9 2009-01-22 05:49:23
- alowin
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Re: Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
from dlink webiste: http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?p … ion=format
When formatting my drives why does it hang at 94%?
Step 1: Be sure you are running the latest firmware
How do I upgrade the firmware on my DNS-323/321?
Step 2: Clear your web browser cookies
I.E.7:
1. From the Tools menu, select Internet Options... .
2. Choose the General tab.
3. Under Browsing history, click Delete... .
4. Next to "Cookies", click Delete files... .
5. Click Close, and then click OK to exit.
Firefox 2.0 for Windows:
From the Tools menu, select Clear Private Data, and then make sure the cookies box is checked, and click "Clear Private Data Now"
Step 3: Format your drives again
Note: If that does not seem to resolve the issue please try removing all partitions from the drive using your PC.
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#10 2009-01-22 17:36:31
- Locri
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Re: Formatting issue with 1.5TB HDs and 1.06
I'll add in that when I finally got everything working, I started by using SeaTools on my drives to completely zero them out and I suspect that helped a great deal. You might try getting whatever software is out there for your drives and zeroing them in addition to changing the timeout.
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