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Trying to use ST3000DM001 3TB drive in USB dock
I have 4 of these drives in my NV+ and want to use them for backups and/or hot swap for the raid array so I picked up 2 more along with a BlacX eSata dock to use for USB backups. This HDD/dock config replaces an older NexStar I've been using with Sata2 drives. Before buying these drives I checked that they were on the supported list. I beleive that's for internal use though, not USB connectivity.
I can format the drives on both my iMac and MacBook using the dock and see the full capacity. When I connect the dock/drive to my NV+ it sees it but says it has a whopping 196.9MB of storage (100% is free though!). I've tried the FAT variations available as well as the journaled Mac FS options. I don't see a way to format EXT anything (running OS/X 10.8.1)
My old backup relied on 1TB drives, with the new config I can't back up on those.
What am I missing? Is there a way to format the drives from SSH? Some parm I'm missing? Not supported (yet)?
And yes I installed the latest firmware before attempting all this. I also looked through the forum and found similar threads but no matches.
Regards,
PK
I can format the drives on both my iMac and MacBook using the dock and see the full capacity. When I connect the dock/drive to my NV+ it sees it but says it has a whopping 196.9MB of storage (100% is free though!). I've tried the FAT variations available as well as the journaled Mac FS options. I don't see a way to format EXT anything (running OS/X 10.8.1)
My old backup relied on 1TB drives, with the new config I can't back up on those.
What am I missing? Is there a way to format the drives from SSH? Some parm I'm missing? Not supported (yet)?
And yes I installed the latest firmware before attempting all this. I also looked through the forum and found similar threads but no matches.
Regards,
PK
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- Yes, the 'root' password is set to the 'admin' password when you install EnableRootSSH though the root user is a separate user to the admin user and you can change their passwords separately.
mdgm wrote: Yes, the 'root' password is set to the 'admin' password when you install EnableRootSSH though the root user is a separate user to the admin user and you can change their passwords separately.
Once I'm able to successfully log in! Which I just did... I needed to specify the login name on the ssh command line. DOH
Thanks mdgm, for your help and your patience. Now let's see if i can correctly format the drive.- mkfs.ext3 done, powered the drive off and back on to get the nas to see it.
/dev/sde1 /USB/USB_HDD_5 ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
In the dashboard I see it as having 199MB, not 3TB.
root@NAS-4x3TB:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 4184756 729420 3245676 19% /
tmpfs 16 0 16 0% /USB
/dev/c/c 8731269552 2025251464 6706018088 24% /c
tmpfs 51200 0 51200 0% /var/replicate/shm
/dev/sde1 203968 16524 177204 9% /USB/USB_HDD_5 - What's the output of the following?
# sgdisk -p /dev/sde - # sgdisk -p /dev/sde
Disk /dev/sde: 5860533167 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 794F5F45-17AA-45AC-85EA-656434349E02
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533133
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 5860123500 sectors (2.7 TiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition mdgm wrote: What's the output of the following?
# sgdisk -p /dev/sde
Posted, to me it looks like the FW recognizes the drive correctly and all I need is the right incantation to format it.- Probably.
Edit: you could try using parted/Gparted. mdgm wrote: Probably.
Edit: you could try using parted/Gparted.
hmmm.... command not found for both?- You might need to do
apt-get update && apt-get install parted
or something like that. You can google on how to use it. mdgm wrote: You might need to do
apt-get update && apt-get install parted
or something like that. You can google on how to use it.
Installed. I'll explore the options in the morning. The print shows:
# parted /dev/sde print
Model: Initio INIC-1610P (scsi)
Disk /dev/sde: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB ext3 EFI System Partition boot
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