DNS-323 Network Storage

[kun1he2]

For those on 1.04 firmware, you may want to upgrade to the 1.05 firmware asap.

Kenna amber light on my raid1 left drive - checked the dns-323 forums and learned that there's some bug in 1.04 firmware which detects drive status incorrectly and kicks out your drive from the array set even though the drive is fine.

Upgraded to 1.05 firmware (thanx richneo for posting the direct official links) and the amber light went away.

Thereafter, next step was to manually join the left drive back into the array - else the DNS-323 will continue to run in degraded state. Once joined, the added drive will be automatically resync-ed - which can take very long for huge drive capacities.

To hot add a disk back into raid:
mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb2 (or /dev/sda2 - depending on which drive was kicked out)

Check status of raid resync:
cat /proc/mdstat

... btw, you'll need to telnet or ssh into the dns-323 first before running the above commands... outside scope of this post as I think it's been covered in other posts in this thread.

 

[OriFlaMmE]

A quick question. I connected a HP Printer to the USB port of the NAS323. However when I try printing stuff.. Via Ethernet it takes v. long to load the print page menu. Is it due to the slow processor of the NAS? I see the network light flickering but v. slow. Even worst when I use wireless.. Any idea guys?

 

[richneo]

For those on 1.04 firmware, you may want to upgrade to the 1.05 firmware asap.

Kenna amber light on my raid1 left drive - checked the dns-323 forums and learned that there's some bug in 1.04 firmware which detects drive status incorrectly and kicks out your drive from the array set even though the drive is fine.

Upgraded to 1.05 firmware (thanx richneo for posting the direct official links) and the amber light went away.

Thereafter, next step was to manually join the left drive back into the array - else the DNS-323 will continue to run in degraded state. Once joined, the added drive will be automatically resync-ed - which can take very long for huge drive capacities.

To hot add a disk back into raid:
mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb2 (or /dev/sda2 - depending on which drive was kicked out)

Check status of raid resync:
cat /proc/mdstat

... btw, you'll need to telnet or ssh into the dns-323 first before running the above commands... outside scope of this post as I think it's been covered in other posts in this thread.

wah

thnx for the info!

 

[sigh]

Still running on 1.03firmware
Cannot upgrade as I got no space to move out and reformat HDD.

 

[richneo]

Still running on 1.03firmware
Cannot upgrade as I got no space to move out and reformat HDD.

hehehe but then hor.. i never formated my hdd since the 1.03 and beyond days leh

 

[sigh]

Spoke to Dlink support, in order to support Unicode must reformat mah. Otherwise no point moving to 1.04

 

[StupidMe]

do u all faced any prob with the changing ip address whenever u restart your router or switches

because mine always change when the switches re-power on due to unclean powersupply

anyway is there any methods to fix the ip address to make it permanant ?

 

[richneo]

do u all faced any prob with the changing ip address whenever u restart your router or switches

because mine always change when the switches re-power on due to unclean powersupply

anyway is there any methods to fix the ip address to make it permanant ?

its there under SETUP > LAN

set a static ip there

 

[richneo]

Spoke to Dlink support, in order to support Unicode must reformat mah. Otherwise no point moving to 1.04

i must be lucky that i havent had problems with unicode yet.

so far my chinese named files can be uploaded and downloaded in 323 successfully

 

[sigh]

Your DHCP should be able to assign fixed IP on your DNS323.
Alternatively you can fixed IP on the DNS323 directly.

 

[richneo]

Your DHCP should be able to assign fixed IP on your DNS323.
Alternatively you can fixed IP on the DNS323 directly.

yah hehe in fact im using static dhcp from my router too

 

[thesleeper]

Hi people,

I got some questions regarding the DNS-323. For example if I open a word file in the NAS and a second person wants to open the same file, will he be able to open the file or will the file be locked.

 

[richneo]

Hi people,

I got some questions regarding the DNS-323. For example if I open a word file in the NAS and a second person wants to open the same file, will he be able to open the file or will the file be locked.

in firmware 1.05 i saw oplocks function

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oplocks

 

[StupidMe]

its there under SETUP > LAN

set a static ip there

Hi richneo
Thanks for replying me

so the static ip if i fixed at 192.168.1.4
it will forever be that ip le ah , no matter how i reboot my router & switches ahh ?

by the way what is the difference with the dhcp & static ?

Regards
sm

 

[StupidMe]

Hi people,

I got some questions regarding the DNS-323. For example if I open a word file in the NAS and a second person wants to open the same file, will he be able to open the file or will the file be locked.

that i try before
my version 1.04 with op lock selected

when the first user open the word doc le , the 2nd user will be able to open it in read-only format , there will be a pop up windows to informed u the file is been lock and ask whether u still wanna open it in read only format .

 

[zjllee]

hmmzzz i am getting a header error with the 1.05 rar file downloaded fr the dlink s'pore support site.

 

[richneo]

try using another browser or computer to download. Else download from dlink usa website. They are the same. If still persist, you need to check your computer.

 

[chingkt]

hmmzzz i am getting a header error with the 1.05 rar file downloaded fr the dlink s'pore support site.

I also have problem with the easy search software too, cannot extract from the rar file.

 

[richneo]

I also have problem with the easy search software too, cannot extract from the rar file.

yes im getting the same error too.

try downloading from USA

 

[demonicvic]

I downloaded frm here instead frm Dlink.SG > http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=509&sec=0#firmware