Handle external drives, w/o partition-table

[drmonty]

Hi,

I bought yesterday an AS-604T (I love it very much !) and wanted to migrate my files by an external WD My Book 3TB USB3.0 drive. So I plugged in the device in the front usb3.0 port, and the drive gets detected, but won't get mounted. The driver was formatted with ext3.
AS-604T responses on plug-in the following lines in logfile:

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2013-04-18T20:42:31.034252+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.623929] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] 732558336 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
2013-04-18T20:42:31.040651+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.633346] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
2013-04-18T20:42:31.047449+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.639384] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] No Caching mode page present
2013-04-18T20:42:31.055256+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.645893] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
2013-04-18T20:42:31.065128+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.654879] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] 732558336 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
2013-04-18T20:42:31.071976+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.663912] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] No Caching mode page present
2013-04-18T20:42:31.072015+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.669705] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
2013-04-18T20:42:31.092665+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.686191]  sdf: unknown partition table
2013-04-18T20:42:31.102440+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.691478] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] 732558336 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
2013-04-18T20:42:31.102505+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.700082] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] No Caching mode page present
2013-04-18T20:42:31.108189+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.705905] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
2013-04-18T20:42:31.119399+02:00 nas kernel: [  851.712233] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk

fdisk -l on a different linux-pc responses:

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Disk /dev/sdb: 3000.6 GB, 3000558944256 bytes, 732558336 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

blkid on the different linux-pc responses:

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/dev/sdb: UUID="67052bef-d277-45b9-9b57-94484d3ba389" TYPE="ext3"

It's pretty annoying to transfer the files from another pc to the nas, instead transfering the files directly from the nas...
Is there any way to get the device mounted (without formatting the drive), so I can transfer the files directly on nas?

Thank you very much!

- Monty

//EDIT:
hm... ssh -> 'fuser /dev/sdf' on nas showed, that fsck is running on the drive... so I can't mount the drive manually, until this is done. Will patient, until fsck is finished .

//EDIT2:
All clear, I could mount the device manually, after fsck is finished.
Would be much clearer, if nas could display on ADM, that the device was found, but can't get mounted, because the filesystem check is currently running, wouldn't it?

Thanks anyway .

[James.W@AST]

Hi drmonty,

Thanks for the information : ) We will see how we can improve this

Cheers,

JW