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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 Win...
> 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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