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

Oh, one more thing. I think maybe nobody has noticed the problem because they have never shut down the system all the way (like power OFF). You can do this through the utility -> system area..shutdown if you have 1.2, or you can do it through the front button by holding it for a few seconds until it starts to blink. THEN turn it back on and see what happens. Remember, I am using RAID 1 and 2 disks. 1 disk will always work from what I have seen..

You have probably hardware related problem here. Check your disks for bad sectors and try to swap bays if one disk works fine. Also maybe get telnet access and check dmesg.

Lets assume you have telnet access and a RAID1 (mirror) /dev/md0 with v1.02 firmware,
what would be the procedure to run the fsck?  (this has always confused me with a RAID)

1. telnet to DNS-323

do you unmount the RAID #umount  /dev/md0
do you run fsck on /dev/md0 or /dev/sda1  or /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda3
how to you choose which disk to fsck or do you fsck both sda(1,2,3) and sdb(1,2,3)
do you fix one drive sda and re-sync sdb (not exactly sure how to re-sync?)
do you fix sda and copy to sdb  (dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1)

then remount the RAID #mount -a  or # mount /dev/md0 /mnt/HD_a2

//Mig

gazoo, it sounds like a power supply problem, could you get a replacement power supply from a friend to test?

gazoo the easiest thing is to try the disks in another DNS-323 but since this is not an option dmesg is your friend, you need to install telnet as explained elsewhere (the rar'd file is the best).
If the box dies after 5 sec's but you can still ping it the chances are that the telnet will be alive.

Perhaps destroy all partitions with fdisk on a PC, recreate them and fully format the drives (even NTFS is fine), this will check the drives for errors. It would be more elegant to use smartctl to run a full internal SMART test but this is way beyond this forum, you can read more about it on smartctl pages.
Destroy the partitions again and plug the disks back into DNS-323.

Reformatted the two drives in windows using ntfs, and then removed the partitions. STILL DID THE SAME THING - Starts up for 5-10 seconds, and when you here the two drives start to spin up the whole thing POWERS ITSELF OFF ABRUPTLY. I've sent this back as defective and will receive another one in 2 days and will let you know if it really was defective or if the DNS just stopped liking my drive model numbers.