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Author Topic: 94% format failure problem fixed - downgrade from 1.06 to 1.04 FW  (Read 2602 times)

ecb

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94% format failure problem fixed - downgrade from 1.06 to 1.04 FW
« on: March 09, 2009, 09:04:26 PM »
Hi everyone, so after hearing back from a couple people on the risk/benefits of RAID 1 vs volume copying I decided to go with volume copying (mostly out of fear of a corrupted RAID disk which would be harder to recover from that one that was just used as a "normal" drive, plus there's a bit more independence/security in 2 drives with their own copy of data rather than 1).

Anyways, I tried to reconfigure/reformat and I got the dreaded 94% bug when formatting.  The 323 would just hang at 94% complete and would never budge.  After a couple hours of frustration I finally found a thread where a couple people reported success in downgrading from 1.06 to 1.04 and then doing the format.  I had started with 1.04 out of the box and upgraded to 1.06 after building the RAID.  I tracked down the 1.04 FW (the link is broken at dlink but you can get it at ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Multimedia/dns323/Firmware/dns323_firmware_104.zip), reflashed the firmware, and formatting went fine.  Yay.

Now I have 2 separate drives and am going to do incremental backups to keep them synced without the concern of using the RAID.  Good times.
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