N5200Pro - making an eSATA drive available

[Splash]

Ok, so I almost have my N5200Pro working exactly as I want it to, but not quite. I created a 5 disk RAID5 array using all the internal disks, assigning 10% of space for data, the rest for iSCSI. I now have an eSATA caddy that is hooked up, the disk is visible but it seems impossible to make the disk available to use - I cannot expand the RAID to include it, not can I make a second RAID as all 5 internal disks are in use. How can I go about this?

[Funkstar]

The external eSATA drive works pretty much the same as the USB drive.

You can't include it as part of the RAID or as a seperate RAID, it auto mounts..... I just can't remember the exact path to it (not at home to check).

[Splash]

If you could update the thread when you get the chance to check Neil it'd be hella appreciated - I'm guessing there is no NFS/ACL configuration to do in that case, you simply browse to the relevant mount point?

[Funkstar]

Thats right.

I'll have a look when i get home next week, but there should be something in the manual, or just go through Windows networking and you should see the share.

[Splash]

Thats right.

I'll have a look when i get home next week, but there should be something in the manual, or just go through Windows networking and you should see the share.

sadly not - I see \media (which I created), \usbhdd and \usbcopy but nothing for esata. There's no rush, I'd just like to be able to make use of it to bckup stuffs to is all.

[peterfu]

You will find the connected eSATA harddisc at /usbhdd - what format is the eSATA harddisc ?
And have You set proper Access righst to usbhdd (public for the beginning would be perfect)
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Peter

[Splash]

Aha - that would make sense in that case. I was pretty certain that the drive was formatted NTFS, though I'll hook the caddy up to my PC to verify. Thinking on, I believe that NTFS support for the N5200Pro is read only, so I'm looking at FAT32 (please correct me if I'm wrong, as NTFS would be far preferable)

[peterfu]

Yes, NTFS is read only - however You could manually mount it with the help of the NTFS3G module (some commandline work is necesarry) , which gives You then read/write access - or You use ext3, which gives You also read/write during automount.
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Peter