SC101 problem - strange detections

[Evildice]

Hi there,

I recently have purchased a Netgear SC101 microSAN and got 2 identical Seagate Barracuda 300GB drives (Model: ST3300831A). I have installed the software for the SC101 and put the device in my network.
What happened then is I started searching for the device with the software that came along with it, but it didn't find anything. There's no very good documentation that comes along with it, though I found some info about it and it appears that one of my drives supposed to have crashed. Thinking that was impossible, I put it in a regular PC to see if the drive was really broken and after booting, I could still see the drive, partition it and format it without any problems.
Having this done, I concluded the drives were OK.
Now, there is some CLI tool that comes along with the device called ut.exe. I tried running the ut -listall command and suddenly it saw the drives. I made volumes and shares and tried to use the drives. They worked great, but as it was just a test, I wanted to rename the share (which automatically changes the name of the volume) and the program just crashed.
After the crash I rebooted the PC and the device, but now, one of the drives crashes the SC101 and the other one is detected as 300GB drive, but only has 0.4 GB available even though I just formatted it when I put it back in the PC. The other drive that crashes the device, is also seen normally as empty 300GB HDD.
I have tried to only put the working disk in the device (which according to the software only has 0.4GB available) in there and updated the firmware, but unfortunately without any luck. I verified that the firmware update was done successfully.
Right now I'm trying a low level format on the HDD that crashes the device to see if there was any data on there that shouldn't be there.
I will most definitely post when this fixes the problem, though is there anyone out there either having the same crap I have or does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks all in advance for your time reading this post! I hope someone can help me out, because this thing is driving me crazy!

Cheers,


Evildice

[pcotter]

Hi,
Have you searched trough Netgear forums?
http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=17843

I don't think there is any thing wrong with your hdds.

[Evildice]

Me neither. I've been looking through the forum you sent me the link of. I have been looking roughly through it before, but I actually got into it as soon as I read your reply. No result so far...
The Netgear forum doesn't contain any information about the exact problem I am facing. The link you sent me was about not being able to partition the disks in the toaster from what I can read (or maybe I'm just being stupid and read over it).

I also haven't achieved anything with the forever taking low level format (thought it would also erase all NTFS and possible SFS data which I'm sure it has). I still have the same problem.

I'm going to continue messing with this problem again tonight. Hopefully there's an answer to it. I'm going to post this on Netgear as well to see whether they can provide me with anything. As soon as I have an answer to it, I'll post it here of course!

Thanks again!


Cheers