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Can the RN314 have multiple USB 3.0 Drives on back ports?
I just purchased a WDC Red 4 TB HDD and put it into an OWC Mercury Elite Pro 3.0 USB Enclosure. I removed my UPS cable from the lower rear USB 3.0 port on my RN 314. I left the Seagate 2 TB 2.0 HDD in...
Well I botched sending the logs. Then, I noticed that the USB cable needed to be inserted just a wee bit more, as it was quite tight. Then, ReadyCloud recognized that an external storage device had been connected. Hurrah! My joy was short-lived however. I then got a message that "... but the filesystem is not recognized".
I went to Shares, and it was there as USB_HDD_4 (for some reason, the other one has both 2 and 3, with 3 being quite small). There was no Format option on the share, only browse, eject and settings. In settings, only SMD was selected, so I turned on the same ones that are on the other one. Now, I am still waiting as the spinning icon does its thing (Yosemite). Hitting the Power button on the front panel just reveals the free space.
Opening another ReadyCloud session just says that the device is offline. The good news is that Finder sees it, and I can create a Folder at its root, and copy a file from one of the NAS's "real" shares to it.
The bad news, is that the spinning has stopped, it just appears to be frozen. This is ten minutes now. I don't see any indication of activity on the RN314.
Time to panic?
I panicked and went to another computer and used Chrome to log on. There, I attempted to format as NTFS, but it then said that "the device is busy, try again later". Gotta go to work soon.
Any ideas?
I downloaded the logs and will send them.
Nah, I screwed up really bad. Formatted the top drive. Gone. Was my backup. Archive. It's all gone. No snapshots to restore from.
Bummer. I thought the top drive was a 2TB Hitachi. Turns out it also was a 4TB WDC, and the Format page did not give me enough information to notice the difference (it is there). So, I have the 2 TB backup from November I will resume with. Not as bad as I thought. I do hope that the new one formats correctly. Will see this evening.
I went to Shares, and it was there as USB_HDD_4 (for some reason, the other one has both 2 and 3, with 3 being quite small). There was no Format option on the share, only browse, eject and settings. In settings, only SMD was selected, so I turned on the same ones that are on the other one. Now, I am still waiting as the spinning icon does its thing (Yosemite). Hitting the Power button on the front panel just reveals the free space.
Opening another ReadyCloud session just says that the device is offline. The good news is that Finder sees it, and I can create a Folder at its root, and copy a file from one of the NAS's "real" shares to it.
The bad news, is that the spinning has stopped, it just appears to be frozen. This is ten minutes now. I don't see any indication of activity on the RN314.
Time to panic?
I panicked and went to another computer and used Chrome to log on. There, I attempted to format as NTFS, but it then said that "the device is busy, try again later". Gotta go to work soon.
Any ideas?
I downloaded the logs and will send them.
Nah, I screwed up really bad. Formatted the top drive. Gone. Was my backup. Archive. It's all gone. No snapshots to restore from.
Bummer. I thought the top drive was a 2TB Hitachi. Turns out it also was a 4TB WDC, and the Format page did not give me enough information to notice the difference (it is there). So, I have the 2 TB backup from November I will resume with. Not as bad as I thought. I do hope that the new one formats correctly. Will see this evening.
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