NASLite Network Attached Storage

I dust off the old kt7a raid mb to test out v2 and have ran in to a problem.
firstly i am not running as raid I just want the extra ide channels.

bios can see my drives and so can naslite but it wont mount. the HD's i am using are 100% working fine only just pulled from my other nas.

sticking the drives on the primary and secondary is fine and i can access the drives. But i am puzzled as to why i cant mount them when i can format and disk check them on the raid channel

Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: HPT370: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:13.0
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: HPT370: chipset revision 3
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: hda: Maxtor 6B200P0, ATA DISK drive
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: blk: queue c0484c00, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: hde: Maxtor 6L200P0, ATA DISK drive
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: blk: queue c04854a8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: ide2 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xb402 on irq 11
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: hda: 398297088 sectors (203928 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24792/255/63, UDMA(33)
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: hde: attached ide-disk driver.
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: hde: host protected area => 1
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: hde: 398297088 sectors (203928 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24792/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Jul 8 2006 04:48:23)
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.8.2 (Release Date: Mon Jul 26 12:15:51 EDT 2004)
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.10 loaded.
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jul 11 20:18:13 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins

Make sure the drives are jumpered properly. You are mounting hda and hde, so NASLite-2 is rendering the controllers properly for sure.

Yea i got the drives correct. during testing I have moved the drives around. but have always had the jumper set on master on the primary and i had another hd on the first raid channel set as master.

even if i have a 1 drive set as master on the first raid channel it still wont mount.

As far as i can see from intial boot watching the screens the drives are correct and nas sees the drive correctly as well. go to format and then set to RW then save config reboot then i have a fail, going to the hd config it say the name of the drive etc yet is unmounted.

Still testing i'll post back when i sorted this out

Some disks have a different jumper setting for single or master with a slave.

its defo not jumper related. just had a single maxor set as slave on the primary channel. and a single maxtor on the primary raid channel set as master, one detected as master in the first boot bios and the second maxtor master on the primary raid.

HD on the primary is pass and i am able to use, HD on the raid is fail.
and like i say it can be formatted , disk checked etc but remains unmounted.

This hasnt beat me yet..


Single HD on primary raid set as master

Jul 11 21:26:17 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.02.26-22:07+0000)
Jul 11 21:26:17 daemon.info init: ^MStarting pid 1319, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.02.26-22:07+0000)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.31.NASLite (root@TZT) (gcc version 3.3.6) #1 Sat Jul 8 04:34:40 UTC 2006
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.notice kernel: 511MB LOWMEM available.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 131056
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 126960 pages.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 VT8371 ) @ 0x000f7900
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 VT8371 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 VT8371 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 VT8371 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 rw
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Detected 800.054 MHz processor.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 1595.80 BogoMIPS
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Memory: 512888k/524224k available (2169k kernel code, 10948k reserved, 727k data, 536k init, 0k highmem)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: CPU: AMD Duron(tm) processor stepping 01
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Checking for popad bug. OK.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4e0, last bus=1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 03): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: PCI: Via IRQ fixup
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 2 throttling states)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.7.6-k1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ken.de
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: originally by Donald Becker
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: 2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xe0806000, 00:09:5b:22:3f:22, IRQ 11.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.30.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: HPT370: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:13.0
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: HPT370: chipset revision 3
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: hde: Maxtor 6B200P0, ATA DISK drive
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: blk: queue c04854a8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: ide2 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xb402 on irq 11
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: hde: attached ide-disk driver.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: hde: host protected area => 1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: hde: 398297088 sectors (203928 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24792/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Jul 8 2006 04:48:23)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.8.2 (Release Date: Mon Jul 26 12:15:51 EDT 2004)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.10 loaded.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa400, IRQ 5
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa800, IRQ 5
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: <6>hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: <6>scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Vendor: USB Model: Flash Disk Rev: 2.00
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: SCSI device sda: 505856 512-byte hdwr sectors (259 MB)
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:. p1 p2 p3 p4
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.debug kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.debug kernel: nd at 2
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1602k freed
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.notice kernel: eth0: link up.
Jul 11 21:26:17 user.info kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
Jul 11 21:26:24 auth.info login[1317]: root login on `vc/1'

Allow the BIOS to allocate all IRQs prior to NASLite-2 booting. Do that by turning off the PnP OS option. Also disable LPT, COM, AUDIO, etc. There is definitely something goofy about the setup.

Another thing to keep in mind is to check the admin interface and make sure the formatted disks are not parked (idle) on boot. If a disk is idle, it will not be mounted.

only have the network card and gfx card in, turned every thing off and still no joy, then tried running setup defaults and no change.

running out of ideas. here..

Well I gave up in the end.

and now i am pissed off. i pulled 3 working maxtors from my current nas and put them in the k7ta board and as you can see they all failed to mount. and was never written to. as i had data on the drives all i wanted to do was see if i could use the other mb so i can use more HDs.

Plus i used two other HD's that i had, these i formatted etc but these would not mount either.

Now i rebuilt my nas and the drives I put in the other machine all fail to mount, the only one that mounts is the one that remained in the original nas.

Now i got to fix this mess.

I have the same problem.

I have a ABIT VP6 with the onboard HighPoint RAID controller. I can format and do all other maintenance on the drive, but it still does not want to mount after I save the config and reboot. I played around with the BIOS, but could not find anything else to tweak. I can attach the log if needed.

Any ideas Tony/Ralph?

Herkaun,
I knew it wasnt anything I was doing. I got three drives with data that i cant mount at all even in the original NAS and these drives where not even written to. I tested the other drives i had that also failed to mount and the only way i could get them working was to perform a format in my orignal nas. moving HD's around is somthing I wont be doing again soon. I cant believe that moving drives to another machine will cause these problems and these are new drives.

I've never tried to use onboard "software" raid controllers to drive 4 more IDE devices not in a raid configuration.

I'll do some testing this evening and give some more input.

Whats the original NAS setup? software etc?

Ralph,

The original setup was Naslite+usb v1.5 i upgraded to v2 and the whole process was problem free. all the drives where working normal only thing i done was apply the journal to each drive. machine running 100%.

I also have a Kt7A Raid only needing drives i pulled 3 of the four from the working nas and popped them in as you can read above the HD's would not mount so i got some other drives that i know to work and these would not mount.... finally give up as i tried everything.. i put the 3 drives back and these will not mount anymore.. the other two test drives i had only worked after i put them in the current nas and formatted them.

I am now trying to recover 2 x 200GB and a 1 x 80 GB of data..
but havent touched them yet i want to read a bit more before i try anything.

Ralp,

I went from V1.5(usb) to V2 with no problems. It picked up my 4 drives and everything worked perfectly. I added an old Linux drive, and thought that it would see the linux file system, but it did not see anything. I then formated it and added journalling. Everything looked fine at that point, but after the save and reboot, it still showed "FAIL" at the boot screen. On the disk management screen it showed that it did not mount.

Let me know if you need more specifics.