The 3TB drive in my cloudbox just died a week ago. I was glad to find fvdw-sl in order to be able to revive the cloudbox with a new disk.
So, first of all, thank you very much for your work.
However, during install with the standalone kernel, an error occured:
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Start fvdw-sl firmware installer version 3.1
selected nas type cloudbox platform kirkwood
selected disk /dev/sda
gpt support bootloader selected yes
selected partion table type gpt
Deleting old gpt partiton table
deleting gpt partition succeeded
create new partiton table
create new GPT partiton table
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5
Problem opening /dev/sda for reading! Error is 6.
creating GPT partiton table succeeded
format partition 5
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
mke2fs-ext3: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size
formatting sda5 failed
The issue looks similar to https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2778 except my drive is only 3TB sized (not like >10TB).
When I issued gdisk or fdisk after the failure, it did not find /dev/sda anymore, even though it was able to access it and delete the old partition table before.
I worked around the problem by creating an empty GPT manually after restart of the standalone kernel and tinkering around in the fvdw-sl-installer-3-1.sh:
For my purpose, I just removed the whole block where old partitions are removed and the device is removed and added again.
This did the trick, i.e. the drive was getting formatted and the firmware installed after that.
Still, you may want to look into the part that removes and adds the device, as in my case this failed consistently. This might happen to others as well.
Thanks & Regards!