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trying to repurpose drives from NV+ in pc
i have 4 2TB hitachi ds5sad200 drives pulled from a working ReadyNAS NV+ which was running RAIDiator 4.1.x (probably .9, but i can't remember). the drives have sat dormant for a year of more, but w...
i know how to use the disk utilities on each of my main os'es. that's not the issue.
the problem is that the drives are reporting zero space and are not writable / able to be partitioned. to compare to my repurposing of the 500 Gb drives that were in the same NV+ before the 2TB drives, those had 3 partitions and were easily changed.
these don't display any partition data and can't be modified in the os utilities or in the adaptec bios of the raid card i have installed. all 4 behave the same, so i don't think it's a failed drive.
i believe the drive geometry isn't reporting correctly and may be the result of the RAIDiator 4K conversion or something like that.
any drive gurus care to hazard a guess?
the problem is that the drives are reporting zero space and are not writable / able to be partitioned. to compare to my repurposing of the 500 Gb drives that were in the same NV+ before the 2TB drives, those had 3 partitions and were easily changed.
these don't display any partition data and can't be modified in the os utilities or in the adaptec bios of the raid card i have installed. all 4 behave the same, so i don't think it's a failed drive.
i believe the drive geometry isn't reporting correctly and may be the result of the RAIDiator 4K conversion or something like that.
any drive gurus care to hazard a guess?
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