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RN104 eSATA Issues #24305721
Hi everyone, I have several ReadyNAS units at work (some Ultra/Plus units and an RN314). I just purchased an RN104 for home use, and am having issues getting it to work with an external eSATA enclosu...
Most of my attempts have been with the unit in FLEXraid mode. So I just experimented some more in both modes. I only have one drive in the RN104 at the moment, two drives in the external enclosure.
Mostly the behavior is the same in either mode with a few subtle differences.
The following occurs the same in either raid mode:
The hang occurs within a few seconds to a minute after hot plugging the enclosure or booting with the enclosure connected.
When hot plugging the RN104 only sees the first drive in the enclosure.
When booting with the enclosure connected, the RN104 sees both drives in the encolosure.
The detected drives are shown in red on the admin volumes page (in a graphic of the EDA500) with a message stating that inactive drives must be removed to use the newly detected drives.
The drive settings box on the left side of the volumes page only has the DESTROY option available for the two enclosure drives.
If I DESTROY them, the drives go from red to black in the graphic on the volumes page.
The following are the differences observed in the two modes:
In FLEXraid, when the drives are black I can select them and have both options to the right: FORMAT and NEW VOLUME. I believe that one time I was able to get it to complete a format before the hang. If I don't format and the drive is already NTFS, I can click NEW VOLUME, name the volume and see it in shares before it hangs.
In X-raid and the above scenario, only the FORMAT option is available, NEW VOLUME is grayed out. I attempted to do a format once and received an error code message after the format attempt. I don't recall the error code, it's very difficult to reproduce some of these situations since most of the time the system hangs before I can do anything, then requiring a hard reset.
In FLEXraid when the enclosure drives are black, new options are available for the internal NAS volume: ADD PARITY and EXPAND VOLUME. I haven't tried this since it's not what I want to do anyway and surely wouldn't succeed before the system hangs.
In Xraid, no new options were available for the internal NAS drive. This is kind of odd and almost seems backwards since I would have expected Xraid to have more flexible expansion options.
Thanks again for the help.
Mostly the behavior is the same in either mode with a few subtle differences.
The following occurs the same in either raid mode:
The hang occurs within a few seconds to a minute after hot plugging the enclosure or booting with the enclosure connected.
When hot plugging the RN104 only sees the first drive in the enclosure.
When booting with the enclosure connected, the RN104 sees both drives in the encolosure.
The detected drives are shown in red on the admin volumes page (in a graphic of the EDA500) with a message stating that inactive drives must be removed to use the newly detected drives.
The drive settings box on the left side of the volumes page only has the DESTROY option available for the two enclosure drives.
If I DESTROY them, the drives go from red to black in the graphic on the volumes page.
The following are the differences observed in the two modes:
In FLEXraid, when the drives are black I can select them and have both options to the right: FORMAT and NEW VOLUME. I believe that one time I was able to get it to complete a format before the hang. If I don't format and the drive is already NTFS, I can click NEW VOLUME, name the volume and see it in shares before it hangs.
In X-raid and the above scenario, only the FORMAT option is available, NEW VOLUME is grayed out. I attempted to do a format once and received an error code message after the format attempt. I don't recall the error code, it's very difficult to reproduce some of these situations since most of the time the system hangs before I can do anything, then requiring a hard reset.
In FLEXraid when the enclosure drives are black, new options are available for the internal NAS volume: ADD PARITY and EXPAND VOLUME. I haven't tried this since it's not what I want to do anyway and surely wouldn't succeed before the system hangs.
In Xraid, no new options were available for the internal NAS drive. This is kind of odd and almost seems backwards since I would have expected Xraid to have more flexible expansion options.
Thanks again for the help.
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