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Kraico · 06-25-2005, 11:38 AM

Hello ALL...

I am 2 weeks into an upgrade of a 1000 and honestly am about to give up. This post is a last ditch attempt to fix my issues before I just go buy a new NAS.

My Hardware is as follows:

Snap 1000
Software ver: 3.4.803
Hardware ver: 3.1.2
Bios: 2.1.366
HD: Quantum 40 gig

Proposed upgrade: Western Digital 120GB, 7200rpm, ATA100

Before I even found this site I tried to clone my existing drive (with all data and settings) using a program called G4U. I let the clone finish (entire drive) and thought I was on the right tract when the OS was working fine. The problem was any disk utility's indicated "this screen is not available because no disks were found".

Enter the Procooling forum.....

I have read every post in this thread so please don't flame me if I have missed something but I do not believe anyone has posted regarding the problem I am experiancing. I started over and tried the Knoppix method (Reformat original, set to factory specs, DD etc.) only to experiance the same issue.

The good news is that it appears as if G4U accomplishes the same thing as DD, I found it eaiser and faster than the knoppix method, it includes the utilities to save images even to an FTP site and the download is only about 5 megs vs. 650 for Knoppix.

The bad news is I still have no upgraded Snap.

This forum has enlightened me to the "debug" screen, I determined that the Public Partition of my original drive is 10000 (fairlly typical from my readings) and I have tried the "device info" and the "format reinit" commands.

The device info command throws my Snap into a loop and the screen just keeps scrolling with the error message"

Invalid logical device : 0". In some portions of the screen the 0 is replaced by different characters such as "C" and others that appear to be a "hex address".

Skipping the device info command and going straight to the ".. format 10000 /reinit" returns the error:

Invalid device id 10000 requested

------------
Command returned with console error 1.

Obviously after the clone the partition table or something else is messed up and the public partition is not defined. WHY??

Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated and since I am writing I would like clarification of a couple more issues (these have probably been covered already but my eyes are tired..please be kind)

I would like to create an image of my original drive, upgrade it to version 4 (already downloaded) and try everything again. My hesitation is that if it dosent work I would like to reinstall the 3.4.803 image and be back where I started. I would then just sell this unit and be done with it.

With this being said my question is: does upgrading to version 4 also upgrade the hardware version and bios? In my thinking this would cause the unit to "stuck" at version 4 and unable to be reverted to version 3.xxx.

Thank you all in advance for your time. I appreciate it.

06-25-2005, 11:38 AM	#602
Kraico Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: us Posts: 3	Hello ALL... I am 2 weeks into an upgrade of a 1000 and honestly am about to give up. This post is a last ditch attempt to fix my issues before I just go buy a new NAS. My Hardware is as follows: Snap 1000 Software ver: 3.4.803 Hardware ver: 3.1.2 Bios: 2.1.366 HD: Quantum 40 gig Proposed upgrade: Western Digital 120GB, 7200rpm, ATA100 Before I even found this site I tried to clone my existing drive (with all data and settings) using a program called G4U. I let the clone finish (entire drive) and thought I was on the right tract when the OS was working fine. The problem was any disk utility's indicated "this screen is not available because no disks were found". Enter the Procooling forum..... I have read every post in this thread so please don't flame me if I have missed something but I do not believe anyone has posted regarding the problem I am experiancing. I started over and tried the Knoppix method (Reformat original, set to factory specs, DD etc.) only to experiance the same issue. The good news is that it appears as if G4U accomplishes the same thing as DD, I found it eaiser and faster than the knoppix method, it includes the utilities to save images even to an FTP site and the download is only about 5 megs vs. 650 for Knoppix. The bad news is I still have no upgraded Snap. This forum has enlightened me to the "debug" screen, I determined that the Public Partition of my original drive is 10000 (fairlly typical from my readings) and I have tried the "device info" and the "format reinit" commands. The device info command throws my Snap into a loop and the screen just keeps scrolling with the error message" Invalid logical device : 0". In some portions of the screen the 0 is replaced by different characters such as "C" and others that appear to be a "hex address". Skipping the device info command and going straight to the ".. format 10000 /reinit" returns the error: Invalid device id 10000 requested ------------ Command returned with console error 1. Obviously after the clone the partition table or something else is messed up and the public partition is not defined. WHY?? Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated and since I am writing I would like clarification of a couple more issues (these have probably been covered already but my eyes are tired..please be kind) I would like to create an image of my original drive, upgrade it to version 4 (already downloaded) and try everything again. My hesitation is that if it dosent work I would like to reinstall the 3.4.803 image and be back where I started. I would then just sell this unit and be done with it. With this being said my question is: does upgrading to version 4 also upgrade the hardware version and bios? In my thinking this would cause the unit to "stuck" at version 4 and unable to be reverted to version 3.xxx. Thank you all in advance for your time. I appreciate it.