From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Help Please
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 17:51:56 +0000
Hi I hope you can help or a least point me in the right direction.
I have built a NAS from an old Linux based media player.
Connected via 1of 2 USB sockets and a 4 port USB hub are four USB HDD's
all are formatted to NTFS and have lots of data stored.
The media player has BusyBox V1.1.3 installed and a Samba server, so far so
good.
The NAS is hard wired to the network and all 4 HDD's can be seen and accessed
from any pc on the network.
The problem that I have is that if the NAS is rebooted or has a power cut when
it comes back
on the HDD's will be in a different (random) order and then it is difficult
(almost impossible) to find a file required.
When the HDD's are viewed via network (on win7 pc) they just appear as C D E F.
I can Telnet into the box and gain root access
if I type
fdisk -l
I get the following response
Traxdata_MMS login: root
warning: cannot change to home directory
BusyBox v1.1.3 (2009.12.18-04:22+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
/ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 243202 1953512448 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 60801 488376000 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2 60801 488375968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2 243201 1953504000 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 2 243201 1953503968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 2 243201 1953504000 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdd5 2 243201 1953503968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
as you can see there are 4 HDD reported but they will appear in a random order
when rebooted.
I do not know why 3 of them have Win95 Ext'd (LBA) partitions as all 4 were
formatted on a win7 machine with NTFS.
What I'm asking help with is there any way that the 4 drives can be fixed into
one position
so I can easily find files via the network.
Thanks in advance of any help that can be given.
PS I only have a very very basic knowledge of Telnet commands.
Thanks again
Andy
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