NASLite Network Attached Storage

I just put a 250GB Maxtor in my recently put together Naslite+ system. Naslite only sees 126GB and reports:

"cannot use LBA48 - capacity reset from 490234752 to 268435456"

How do I get it to see the full capacity?

jweaks

In your BIOS set the drive to NONE or NOT INSTALLED.
If you can't set it to none, then see if there is a setting to enable large disk support and turn that on.

BIOS was/is set to none. Don't see anything about a large capacity.

The info page for that drive reports:

Device Model: Maxtor 7Y250P0
Serial Number: Y66LKHWE
Firmware Version: YAR41BW0
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Unrecognized. Minor revision code: 0x1e
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Could that "unrecognized" ATA standard have something to do with it?

jweaks

I'm doing a "1 C" format on it now to see if that helps.

jw

"1 C" format reaches a certain point and then it says:

i8523 count too high! resetting...
i8523 count too high! resetting...

I have no idea what's going on.

jw

tried a few more things... still does not work.

Possible faulty HDD? Can you re-format the HDD (say fat32) and see what Windoze reports? Might be worth your time...

T.

People seem to be having lot's of trouble with Maxtor drives, see http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/vi ... 188b888d69

So why? What's so different about a Maxtor compared to say my Seagate's Maxtors are an obvious choice, and they're a little cheaper than the Seagate's well with ebuyer they are anyway. But why do so many people have problems? If your using NASlite on an old pc the the chances are you didn't really want to throw lot's of money at it so you would be a bit miffed if your new £100 Maxtor drive didn't work. Anyone got any theories as to what could be causing the problems? Or is it purely that Maxtor drives are the most popular so consequently more problems show up with them cos more people use them.
I'll stick with Seagate's, I've put Seagates in 99% of the pc's i've built, and thats over 50 now and I've only had one disk failure and that was my sisters hdd that wouldn't reboot after they moved house, and if I'm honest I don't believe it was the hard drive failing I think it was more likely the been thrown around in a big cardboard box whilst travelling between old house to storage to new house you know how some people think pc's will travel like a sofa, they're not the same as the black box in a plane guys If I move house the pc's are in the car with me and the a/v stuff is going in the wife's car The rest of the stuff can go in the back of the van

jweaks,

I don't think there is nothing actually wrong with the drive. I reckon its the IDE Controller not being able to support LBA48 in DMA mode with this version of the kernal..

what motherboard do you have?

Eden

I think Eden is right. I tried the Maxtor in another, slighty newer system, dropped in Naslite+ and it worked fine after formatting. I was hoping to use the older system, but this one will be okay.

The system that won't work with the big drive has a GigaByte GA-5AX mobo. I believe the onboard IDE is an ATA-66. I tried everything... even flashed the bios to the most recent version thinking that might make some difference, no go.

In the newer system it works like a charm... not sure what model but it's an Intel mobo with ATA-100.

I'd still like to know for certain why it wouldn't work, but at least I have a good working NAS now ...and another big drive on it's way

Thanks for the help!
jweaks

jweaks,

The GA-5AX is ATA66, its uses the Ali chipset which I believe is the problem. Some Revisions don't support LBA48 in DMA mode.

Anyway its great you are up and running plus this nas will be faster.

Eden

yep... I think it has Ali chips

I wonder if there is any fix? I think I saw some Ali firmware or something at the GigaByte site, but it's probably not worth my time at this point... I'm not sure I'd trust it even if I got it to work.

This other system took right to it with zero problems, so I better stick with it.

Thanks,
jweaks

jweaks,

I wouldnt even bother trying to fix it, stick with what you got running now. like i said you got a faster disk access which makes all the difference when streaming large files.

Eden

This is a MB problem. Take a look at my last post here:

http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=351

Thanks for the help. I've got it running now on the other system I had available. It's a better system anyway.

My next problem is speed. My NAS is very slow. I'm getting speeds of less than 1mb/s copying files to the NAS.

Should I try a different NIC? This one is a Davicom DM9009. I have a green light on the 10/100, so I assume I'm getting a 100 connection.

Transfers seem to start quickly and then slow to a crawl.

jweaks