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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...
Last night I tried the drive enclosure on a RN314 and tested it with firmware 6.1.8 and 6.2.0 in FLEXraid
Over eSATA it functions exactly as you would expect it to work with the EDA500 expansion chassis. The 314 sees both enclosure drives when hot plugged. The GUI on the 314 remained stable and did not hang like the 104 did.
I could create new volumes, format, and even expand the existing NAS volume. It does appear that it is treating the enclosure as NAS volume expansion and formatting the drives to btrfs as StephenB correctly postulated. There were no options available for formatting to other file systems, or for mounting the drives as external storage (what I'm looking to do). It seems the 314 (and the 104 before it hangs) simply assume that you want to do internal expansion when it sees a multi-drive, port multiplier enclosure. It would be nice if you could choose between expansion or external storage.
At least this confirms no hang on the 314, and that the enclosure is working properly.
The mystery remains as to why the RN104 hangs, and if it's possible to fix the hang and/or add the option for mounting multi-eSATA drives as external storage.
Perhaps if the hang can be avoided then the drives could be mounted as external via SSH?
I also tested the enclosure on the 314 via USB and discovered a difference in how the two models handle multi-enclosures over USB.
USB was the other option for getting this enclosure to work with the 104. I'll add that info to the USB thread I started here:
viewtopic.php?f=65&t=78981
Over eSATA it functions exactly as you would expect it to work with the EDA500 expansion chassis. The 314 sees both enclosure drives when hot plugged. The GUI on the 314 remained stable and did not hang like the 104 did.
I could create new volumes, format, and even expand the existing NAS volume. It does appear that it is treating the enclosure as NAS volume expansion and formatting the drives to btrfs as StephenB correctly postulated. There were no options available for formatting to other file systems, or for mounting the drives as external storage (what I'm looking to do). It seems the 314 (and the 104 before it hangs) simply assume that you want to do internal expansion when it sees a multi-drive, port multiplier enclosure. It would be nice if you could choose between expansion or external storage.
At least this confirms no hang on the 314, and that the enclosure is working properly.
The mystery remains as to why the RN104 hangs, and if it's possible to fix the hang and/or add the option for mounting multi-eSATA drives as external storage.
Perhaps if the hang can be avoided then the drives could be mounted as external via SSH?
I also tested the enclosure on the 314 via USB and discovered a difference in how the two models handle multi-enclosures over USB.
USB was the other option for getting this enclosure to work with the 104. I'll add that info to the USB thread I started here:
viewtopic.php?f=65&t=78981
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