I’ve kept the storage for my home server on a TeraStation Pro NAS 1.0 TB for quite a while now. Recently I felt the need for more space and decided to buy a 1.6TB model.
The TeraStation itself is quite more expensive than the 4 hard-disks it comes with, but I figured I can go on indefinitely with two of them. By the time that one is filled up, I can but new bigger HDs and transfer the contents of the previous 4 HDs into the new larger ones using the spare TeraStation.
The new model I bought is pretty much the same, bigger hard-disks and the 1.04 firmware.. ouchhh !!!
I managed to slowly (my network isn’t that performing) transfer all the files. Then suddenly today the network share for the new TeraStation stopped working. To turn it off I had to press the power button for a long while, definitely more than usual. It went off quickly and with a beep.
I turn it back on and boom.. there is an error in one of the HDs.
I went to the control panel and followed the procedure to restructure the RAID …but, nothing. I was presented with an odd error message:
Bad name after FormLoad’ at ./html/en/gate_check.pl line 118.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin@localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. Content-type: text/html
Software error:
[Mon Oct 30 02:34:40 2006] ts.cgi: Bad name after FormLoad’ at ./html/en/gate_check.pl line 118.
Compilation failed in require at /www/cgi-bin/ts.cgi line 227.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin@localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
I tried to look on the web for people talking about this error message but I found nothing. Because I have all the data still on the old TeraStation, I decided to give up and just delete the RAID.. but I get the same error message !!
I realize that a firmware upgrade could help solve the issue and I find this wiki talking about firmware. Apparently the latest firmware are better know for giving troubles, so I follow the link in the wiki page and download the supposedly stable 1.01.
I downgraded to the 1.01 and now I’m happily restructuring the RAID !!
I’m not sure how it will end up, but at least I can try !
woooo !!!
Update: It’s all fine now. Installing the 1.01 firmware allowed me to fix the mess.. which probably wouldn’t have happened if I did that from the begging.. sad !!
Posted by Davide Pasca in Diary