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wjrogers · 2007-12-17 21:29:37

I bought a pair of Hitachi 750GB drives to install in my DNS-323. Formerly, I had been using a single Seagate 200GB, which was working fine. I had firmware version 1.3.

I installed the new drives, opened the web interface in IE7, and the wizard came up. I chose RAID 1 (Mirroring) w/ a size of 748 GB, which was the maximum size as reported by the wizard. Format started, continued for until 94%, then hung. I restarted the DNS-323, tried again a couple more times, and it hung at various points in the process each time. Thinking maybe I needed a firmware update to handle the large disk size, I installed firmware 1.4b61 (downloaded from the German Dlink ftp site). With the new firmware, the format would no longer hang, but it would variously say "FAILED" or skip from 50% to "SUCCESS" even though it really hadn't succeeded (the wizard came back up again after rebooting).

I took the drives out, hooked them up to my desktop, and installed Windows Vista, partitioning and formatting both drives with NTFS, then did a complete chkdsk on both, which leads me to believe that there's nothing wrong with the drives. This is the drive info as Newegg lists it:

HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721075KLA330 (0A35154) 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Any thoughts? Something I can try to get them working? Is this drive just too big? I'm disappointed that it's not working in the DNS-323.

frodo · 2007-12-18 04:42:02

There is at least one report of a working deskstar 1T here in the forum:

http://dns323.kood.org/forum/viewtopic. … 31&p=2

wjrogers · 2007-12-18 06:38:44

I've tried rolling back to 1.3 tonight and attempting the format again twice. Still no workie. I will have to try contacting D-Link support tomorrow night, or the next time I have a chance. Thanks for the link to that other post, maybe my drives are bad

Sigh.

frodo · 2007-12-18 10:24:02

How long time did you wait before you did any action? Try to start the raid creation before you go to bed and let it sit there for some time. You have large drives and a slow box...

i2Paq · 2007-12-18 12:27:30

I had the same issue with my CH3SNAS with 1.03 and 1.04.

Delete the partitions from the disks and put in one disk first and create a partition (volume_1), then put in the second disk en create volume_2. Then switch off the device en swap the disks from place. Now try to create the Raid1 etc. etc.

wjrogers · 2007-12-18 15:44:06

Thanks for the suggestions, frodo, i2Paq. I'll try again tonight.

raid1king · 2007-12-19 13:25:15

I found the following to fix my RAID 1 Issue on 750G drives:

a) Erase 2 drives before starting using SATA to USB disk encloser or a pc SATA connection.

1. Power up the DNS-323 unit without any drives installed.
2. Run the Web Page Network Setup Wizard.
3. Make sure to fill out all the details (no blanks) eg: DNS1, DNS2.
4. Finish and reboot.
5. After reboot go into tools->system change setting on “Config Inactivity Timer” = 90min
6. Shutdown the Unit
7. Insert the two drives into the DNS-323
8. Power Up.
9. When you open the web page the unit will ask to format the drive.
10. Select RAID1 and everything will work 100%.

wjrogers · 2007-12-31 03:29:11

I've tried all the suggestions here. Low level format, the settings changes raid1king suggested, formatting each disk separately, then swapping to RAID1. None of it works.

I've tested the drives using my desktop and they worked fine for a full read test and complete low-level erase operation. I think the DNS-323 is just not working properly. I'm also getting tired of dealing with it. Not sure what I am going to do, but I'm very frustrated. Thanks for those who tried to help.

leftyg29 · 2008-02-27 23:58:49

Thanks raid1king. You saved me a lot of headache! I followed your instructions and that fixed my problem. I also upgraded to firmware 1.04.

noisey · 2008-07-08 02:56:02

I arrived at this forum as I had the 94% problem with my brand-spanking-new DNS-323 as well. I managed to work around it and am posting this in the hope that someone can work out the root problem.

I have two laptops:
- an HP nx6325 running Vista Business with SP1 and a wired gigabit ethernet connection; and
- a Sony Vaio (can't recall the model) running XP with SP2 and a wired fast ethernet connection.
Both are running fully patched IE7
Along with my new DNS-323 I bought:
2 x Seagate 1000GB (1TB) 7200rpm Serial ATA-II-300 HDD w. 32MB Cache (ST31000340AS) Barracuda 7200.11, NCQ - to be configured as RAID1
1 x Netgear WNR3500 RangeMax Wireless-N Gigabit Router

Anyway, I first tried to format the drives from the HP machine. Stalled at 94%. My initial thought was that a firmware update may fix it (from 1.04 to 1.05). Downloaded the file and tried to update the firmware. DNS-323 rebooted, but when I checked the Status tab, the firmware hadn't actually updated. I tried several times - no joy. Then I tried to update the firmware using the Sony and it worked first time. Then formatted the drives to completion with the Sony - no problem!

So, I was quick to blame Vista for this, but also wondered if it could alternatively be something to do with the gigabit vs fast ethernet.

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#1 2007-12-17 21:29:37

Failure to create array + format w/ new Hitachi 750GB drives

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