Disk Wizard Won't Format 20TB HDD

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Wesley Synnott

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Dec 10, 2022, 10:03:12 AM12/10/22

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It's been awhile since I've used my DNS323 so I'm not sure if there's anything that needs to be done to get around this.

I started by upgrading the firmware to 1.0, then connected my new 20TB HDD. When I tried to use the disk wizard, it failed with the following message:

mk2efs error: mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)

mke2fs: Size of device /dev/sda2 too big to be expressed in 32 bits using a blocksize of 4096.

There was another user that posted about this awhile back, but that was 2 years ago so I wanted to see if there's any updates on this. Is it just not possible to use disks over a certain size with my old DNS323?