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diverguy
Nov 05, 2012Aspirant
Dead ReadyNAS Ultra2, how to retrieve files?
Hi, I have a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 with two WD Green 3TB drives of which the LCC problem was solved by applying the WDIDLE3 tool early on. The other day I wanted to detach the MyBook 3TB that I use for ba...
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 05, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
You purchased the Ultra over 3 years ago? I find that hard to believe considering it came out less than 3 years ago. The Ultra 2 has a 3 year warranty. Easiest solution would be to migrate to another Ultra, hopefully a replacement under warranty.
The partitions on the disks should be visible in Linux. If you were running 4.2.16 or later you'd need to use tools for GPT e.g. sgdisk (I think). You could use the print option to print the partition table.
It's easy enough to use mdadm to start the RAID, run a vgscan, make the volume group available using vgchange and mount the volume.
Oh and the Ultra uses EXT4.
The partitions on the disks should be visible in Linux. If you were running 4.2.16 or later you'd need to use tools for GPT e.g. sgdisk (I think). You could use the print option to print the partition table.
It's easy enough to use mdadm to start the RAID, run a vgscan, make the volume group available using vgchange and mount the volume.
Oh and the Ultra uses EXT4.
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