| 5.1. Reseting the device | ||
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 | 5. Some tasks |  |
| 5.1. Reseting the device | ||
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| | 5. Some tasks | |
While experimenting I brick my device. So I need to set it to factory default satate. I know that there is a reset pinhole, but it didn't work for me. So I came with another way to do it.
Reseting the device for me is two procedures.
The first task is simple. We need to get into admistrative web interface. After some searching on net I come to wollowing steps.
Shutdown the device if possible. This can't be done if you locked the device enough. So skip to next step.
Unplug the power cord. We need to be sure we do not damage electronic inside.
Remove front panel of the device. Slightli pushin it upvards and pulling forward from the device.
Remove both disc, if you have two. I always use RAID-1 (mirroring) so I have alwas two disc.
Plug the power cord and press the microswith on the front to startup the device.
After device succesfully starts, go to the web interface and login into it. THen find the TOOLS menu, select SYSTEM and press the Restore button to „Restore To Factory Default Settings.“ After a while the device reboots and its in the same state as you unpack it from the box.
The second procedure could ba a little harder. We need there be no information on the disc. We need the device do not recognize previous data structures. The safest way is to plug the disc into another computer, or use SATA to USB converter. The we erase the first bits of the disc with dd command.
# dd if=/dev/zero /of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=10In command shown above I assume that the attached disc is recognized as /dev/sdb. Check twice if its right or you can erase another disc in your system!
Now you can shutdown the DNS-323, unplug power cord and insert both disc into it. After that return back the front panel a plug and power on the device.
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