I would try a recent firmware (if it's available), restore to factory settings and start from scratch. Most of the time you should press the reset button while inserting the power cord for factory defaults.
On 27 June 2015 at 18:59, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Things aren't going well. I didn't even get 1.5TB out of the new drive. > > Somehow the NAS decided to install the new 2TB disk as a 477 GB JBOD > volume. I haven't figured out how to adjust the partition. I can't even > see it. > > The D-Link user's manual is *remarkably* uninformative and Windows > Computer Management does not show Network Drives. > > The only saving grace in this whole charlie-foxtrot is that I think I > managed to copy all of the important files onto other drives before I > tried to rebuild the RAID. > > Which is good, because it's looking more and more like I won't be able > to recover them from the NAS. > > And it's also odd, because my original intent in setting up the NAS was > to reduce the proliferation of duplicate files scattered over multiple > drives/computers. Somehow my failure in this instance has changed a > previous failure into a success. > > But fixing it looks like it's going to take a long, looooooong time. > > > On 6/26/2015 3:54 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: >> >> No you won't get the two full 2 terabytes if you just replace the >> original drive and rebuild the raid array a second time. All it will do >> is replicate what's on the existing drive, at best, and if the hardware >> isn't identical, which of course it isn't, maybe not even that. You >> really need to build a new array using the two new drives and then copy >> all the files on the existing drive to the new raid array. >> >> On 6/25/2015 10:19 PM, John wrote: >>> >>> Question for the network admin gurus here on the list. >>> >>> I have a NAS box with two Seagate ST31500341 1.5TB SATA drives in a >>> Raid-1 (Mirror) configuration. One of the drives failed. >>> >>> The best value replacement I found is a 2TB Seagate NAS HDD (hard-drive >>> specifically manufactured for NAS). >>> >>> I purchased two identical 2TB drives. The two NAS drives cost less than >>> the cost of a single *refurbished* Seagate ST31500341 1.5TB SATA drive >>> (no longer available new & the price point for new 1.5TB drives was even >>> higher). >>> >>> The RAID will finish rebuilding in about 4 hours, but if I understand >>> how these things work, I will only be able to use 1.5TB of the 2TB drive. >>> >>> Should I go ahead and swap out the other 1.5TB drive & rebuild the RAID >>> a second time? >>> >>> If I do so, will I get full use of the 2TB drives or are they going to be >>> limited by the original 1.5TB RAID Mirror size? >>> >>> I've been using PCs & building my own since 1980. I've had some external >>> USB drives that wouldn't work after sitting for a while & I've had >>> internal drives that failed after sitting on a shelf, but this is the >>> first hard-drive I've had fail in use. >>> >>> (Not including when I worked at the IBM PC Company integrated software >>> sub-systems lab & the programmers abused the shit out of the hardware. I >>> was always replacing drives, motherboards, adapter cards, etc that they'd >>> burned up hot swapping stuff that wasn't intended to be hot swapped. But >>> that's another story.) >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
