Installing first time firmware version 11
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:43 pmHi fvdw.
Fist of all, thanks for your help.
Let me tell what happens. My nwsp2 used the original Lacie firmware (2.2.8).
Then, suddenly it stop working and when I restarted it, the only thing was the blue light blinking all the time.
I went to this forum and discovered your firmware, and i decided to use it.
I create a Virtual Machine and installed Ubuntu.
When I typed fdisk -l, the last line of command was "Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System", nothing below. So, the partitions simply was gone.
Answering your questions.
1) It´s the NWS2 Classic.
2) The disk is the one with came from it (Seagate ST2000DL001) 2TB.
3) I used fdisk in some partitions and another one create the partitions with GParted. Probably this is the problem, I'll use the fdisk with 'u' option to create the partitions again.
Best regards.
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Fist of all, thanks for your help.
Let me tell what happens. My nwsp2 used the original Lacie firmware (2.2.8).
Then, suddenly it stop working and when I restarted it, the only thing was the blue light blinking all the time.
I went to this forum and discovered your firmware, and i decided to use it.
I create a Virtual Machine and installed Ubuntu.
When I typed fdisk -l, the last line of command was "Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System", nothing below. So, the partitions simply was gone.
Answering your questions.
1) It´s the NWS2 Classic.
2) The disk is the one with came from it (Seagate ST2000DL001) 2TB.
3) I used fdisk in some partitions and another one create the partitions with GParted. Probably this is the problem, I'll use the fdisk with 'u' option to create the partitions again.
Best regards.
This was the message from General NAS-Central Forums.
fvdw wrote:ps if you use fdisk then you can easily switch between sectors and cylinders using the "u" command option
No this is not normal what you describe. It means it don't find a harddisk. Most likely it is not formatted correctly and the bootloader cannot read the disk
The sector size you mention indicates that you have an advanced format format disk. If that disk can not emulate the classic sector size of 512 bytes and you formattted it using GPT partition table the and your nwsp2 is a classic one then the bootloader of the nwsp2 will not be able to read it.
Did you format it using a GPT table? If so then it won't work as the nwsp2 classic can not read disks formatted in GPT. If you you have a nwsp2 Lite then it should be able to read the disk but it won't boot as the kernel of fvdw-sl doesn't support yet GPT (EFI) formatted disks. The kernel of version 13 supports it, but it is only of use for the nwsp2 lite.
If you hae a nwsp2 classic then and the disk is < 2.2 TB then you should format it using fdisk (=ms-dos partition table)
So to solve your issue we need to know a little more
(1) what nwsp2 do you have
(2) what harddisk are you using size, brand and advanced format yes/no
(3) how did you format it
lf you have an advanced format disk the you should modify the partition table to be used to align partitions with physical sectors, if you don't do it then it can cause severe performance loss on reading and writing to the disk. Some brands have special measures in the software of the drive that let you use the drive just like a 512 bytes one. You need to check on the internet.
ps on the plugout forum various topics can be found on this.
for instance this one
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=581
please discuss further on plugout forum