HDD crash

[Bramozzzz]

Hi all,

Last week my drive suddenly stopped working. As i´m kind of fond on my disk (with your firmware offcourse :applause) I would like to replace it with a new one. My question is can I replace it with a 2TB HDD as opposed to the 1TB currently in it or am I limited to 1TB?

[fvdw]

Hi

a 2 TB drive should work ok on a nwsp1

[Bramozzzz]

Thanks, that's all I needed to know!

[Bramozzzz]

I bought the new 2TB drive last friday and since then I just cannot seem to get it to work properly. I followed all steps as described in the manual but as listed for a smaller drive. I noticed the sector size of my drive is 4096 instead of 512, can this cause any problems? My partition output is as follows (sorry for the crappy pic, no internet on my macbook when using Linux boot CD):

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The drive now spins and stops repeatedly for a while (blue led is blinking) at startup and after a minute or two it stops blinking and the disk just spins idle. No connection to my router whatsoever (doesn't show up in DHCP table).

Does anyone have any thoughts on what I could have done wrong?

[fvdw]

this an advanced format disk (it mentiones physical block size 4096)
how did you connect it to your PC ?
Some usb/sata adapters are not able to handle those disks

It should mention logical block size 512 bytes and physical block size 4096

Most of the time this can be solved by not using the usb/sata connector but connecting it directly to a sata port of your PC

Furthermore not that the guide mentions cylinders and not sectors when aking the partition table. You can switch in fdiks between sector and cylinders mode by using the command : u

But first you will need to have on your display that it mention logical block size 512 bytes.

[Bramozzzz]

Thank you for your feedback. I just inserted the disk in a standalone pc and the results are different indeed. Here's the output sofar:

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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda

The device presents a logical sector size that is smaller than
the physical sector size. Aligning to a physical sector (or optimal
I/O) size boundary is recommended, or performance may be impacted.

Command (m for help): u
Changing display/entry units to cylinders (DEPRECATED!)

Command (m for help): n       
Partition type:
   p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
   e   extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First cylinder (1-243201, default 1): 1
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-243201, default 243201): 32

Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
   p   primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
   e   extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 2): 2
First cylinder (33-243201, default 33): 33
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (33-243201, default 243201): 64

Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
   p   primary (2 primary, 0 extended, 2 free)
   e   extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 3): 3
First cylinder (65-243201, default 65): 65
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (65-243201, default 243201): 96

Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 3
Hex code (type L to list codes): 82
Changed system type of partition 3 to 82 (Linux swap / Solaris)

Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
   p   primary (3 primary, 0 extended, 1 free)
   e   extended
Select (default e): e
Selected partition 4
First cylinder (97-243201, default 97): 97
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (97-243201, default 243201): 243201

Command (m for help): n
All primary partitions are in use
Adding logical partition 5
First cylinder (97-243201, default 97): 97
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (97-243201, default 243201): 144

Command (m for help): n
All primary partitions are in use
Adding logical partition 6
First cylinder (145-243201, default 145): 145
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (145-243201, default 243201): 145

Command (m for help): n
All primary partitions are in use
Adding logical partition 7
First cylinder (146-243201, default 146): 146
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (146-243201, default 243201): 178

Command (m for help): n
All primary partitions are in use
Adding logical partition 8
First cylinder (179-243201, default 179): 179
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (179-243201, default 243201): 243201

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00062058

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          32      256016   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              33          64      257040   83  Linux
/dev/sda3              65          96      257040   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4              97      243201  1952740912+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5              97         144      384536   83  Linux
/dev/sda6             145         145        7008+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7             146         178      264048+  83  Linux
Partition 7 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda8             179      243201  1952081223+  83  Linux
Partition 8 does not start on physical sector boundary.

Command (m for help):   


It says partition 7 and 8 do not start on a physical sector boundary but for now I go ahead anyway. Will post my results later this evening.

[Jocko]

Hi Bramozzz,

It's amazing that you have only a warning for partition 7 and 8.

Otherwise, you use a partition table for not AF disk.

see this post for the right table :http://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1143&p=7081#p7079

[Bramozzzz]

Hi Jocko,

Thank you for your quick reply! Will redo the partitioning using the table you provided!

[Bramozzzz]

Hi,

Finally got it to work on my Internet Space. It took four boots to run properly, but i'm updating it to 15.0 now! Thanks for all the help!

[Bramozzzz]

Hi,

After a couple of days running the fvdw firmware I noticed the ISP1 stops working after a period of inactivity (e.g. when i'm sleeping). I have to reboot the disk to get it to work again. I never had this with my former setup (old HDD). Did I forgot to change a setting or something?