NASLite Network Attached Storage

i recently tried to partition a 160gb hard drive so i had the os on a small partition and two large partitions one read only and one writable. Athough when i turned my naslite computer on it could not find the two large partitions, does anyone know why this is and how i can solve this problem.

NASLite only allows the O/S to reside in an 8MB partition on Disk-0, with the remainder of the disk allocated to the usable storage of Disk-0.

Any other disks will be seen as whole disks and cannot be partitioned in the way I think you would wish.

Actually, HDD would boot from any drive the BIOS can boot from, even USB or FireWire. Once it boots, it walks the available drives looking for a valid configuration. In fact, some people have installed NASLite-2 HDD on IDE or SATA drives and then move them to USB or FW enclosures for periodic use as mirror drives, etc. There really is no restriction which drive the OS is installed to.

However, the partitioning of the drives is critical. All data partitions are #1 or the first partition in a drive. NASLite-2 HDD is installed on partition #2 which is located low on the drive and resides before data partition #1. That way older BIOS can sometime be fooled into booting HDD from a normally unsupported larger drive.

Anyway, just some facts about NASLite-2 HDD