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ReadyNAS not recognising 10TB Seagate Ironwolf on ESATA
RN316 OS 6.7.4
I have added a new Seagate Ironwolf 10TB drive to one of the ESATA ports.
When I have hot added an ESATA in the past I recall it was recognised (not until it was initialised on a Windows PC).
When I hot added this unintialised, it was not recognised.
I intialised it, re connected to NAS, not recognised.
Rebooted NAS, still not recognised in Forntview.
Looking at PHPsysinfo, it shows up under the SCSI list, do it is recognised by Linux.
I wish to backup to it, so I can reformat the NAS, restore, then start progrssivly adding (hot swap) 10TB drives to replace the 3TBs.
Any idea whether I can force ReadyNas to 'see' the ESATA via some SSH command?
p.s. Drive is on H/W compatability list.
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You are saying that you can't see it/format it on the volume page?
You could format it with linux shell command, or you could format it as NTFS in a windows PC.
> You are saying that you can't see it/format it on the volume page?
Yes/No, can't see it on the Overview page - where the Format setting is usually available. ESATA/USB don't appear on the Volume page (I have used an 8TB seagate via ESATA for some time without issue).
I will try a NTFS quick format, ideally an EXTn format on the NAS would be best.
The point here is to get such things fixed.
NTFS format allowed the NAS to see it.
I then BTRFS formatted it; pretty quick, couple of seconds...
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