NASLite Network Attached Storage

Seems there may be something strange here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg ... faqid=5655

Am prepping/QCing 4ea of these drives (10 days each). Would I be better off formatting with Ubuntu before installing into NASLite?


Does anyone really know? Or am I first fool

Not really sure on that one. I have no experience with the advanced format drives as of yet. My advice is to format outside of NL and give it a go in the box to see where that takes you.

Tony? Ralph?

Mike

Arrrgh.....I hate being first fool - but will let you know what I find out.

If your using NASLite-2 v2.63 or newer, it will probably work. GPT support was added.


Thanks.

Thanks for the quick response.

Anything I can do with my poor V2.06 NASLite ?


Yeah, I'm lazy Also - everything works now.

Yep, upgrade!

Mike

That's a "big production" & what I have works fine. My hunch is that this matters only with the actual format process.


When it works - leave it alone.

Just noticed your tag line. If you saw what I'm using - you'd be howling with laughter

I started with an original 486 DX2 100MHz. It would give around 10.5MB/sec. all day long.

Mike

Drive #1 completed QC - so I tried to format with Ubuntu 10.10. Wouldn't boot on this machine (too old -hahahaha).

So just for the hell of it, I plugged in NASLite and tried the format natively. Appears to have worked perfectly.


Don't know if it's that Promise sata card, the kernel SE picked, or just my weird luck - but that drive is formatted with 4096bit sectors now - so I'm moving on with the remaining QC

Naslite V2.06 performed a correct format on WD 2TB drives.


Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I have two WD 2 Gbyte drives and it worked...