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WD20EARS just added on the official HCL - mistake and issues
The official HCL has (quietly !) been updated for Sparc based machines with a 2TB WD desktop class drive: the WD20EARS (http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=82). This is in principle good news as the WD20...
Just wanted to post my experience with this issue. I have an NV+ with 4 500Gb drives nearly to capacity. I bought 4 WD20EARS because they were on the HCL. Slotted the first and it initialized and synced just fine without a hiccup.
Popped in the second disk and got the horrible "the disk could not be used" error. I thought maybe the disk was bad so I tried another one and got the same thing. I then put one of the 500Gb drives back in and let it sync to get back to fully redundant while I piece together the problem.
After much reading I finally found this thread and it was a life saver. I installed 4.1.7 T29 beta firmware, rebooted, then hotplugged one of the new 2Tb drives. It started initializing right away. I did not need to do a factory reset and did not run any WD utilities.
Thanks everyone for posting all this great info!
Popped in the second disk and got the horrible "the disk could not be used" error. I thought maybe the disk was bad so I tried another one and got the same thing. I then put one of the 500Gb drives back in and let it sync to get back to fully redundant while I piece together the problem.
After much reading I finally found this thread and it was a life saver. I installed 4.1.7 T29 beta firmware, rebooted, then hotplugged one of the new 2Tb drives. It started initializing right away. I did not need to do a factory reset and did not run any WD utilities.
Thanks everyone for posting all this great info!
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