ReadyNAS NV+ data recovery one bad disk

Thanks for responding.

With disk 1 inserted, RAIDar showed the disk healthy, but I got connection refused from Frontview or browsing.  The only way I could rouse Frontview was with only disks 3,4 inserted.

I was able to boot with 3,4 and add 1,2 and Frontview showed them, but resync was grayed.  I used the debugger to enable it and start a resync, but the resync failed.  Not surprising.

I did go farther back in the logs and noted an alert about disk 1 from way back in April.  Combined with the recent fail on disk 2, 2 failed disks from ReadyNAS' point of view, so no wonder. 

The drives are all readable as I mentioned before, with ext2-explorer.  I bought R-Studio and can read each of the drives with it also.  I bought a pair of 2TB drives and did a factory reset so I basically have a fresh ReadyNAS.  Am working through the original disks one by one on a PC with R-Studio and recovering.  backup share from Disk 1 in progress now.  It says 8 days to finish.  Recovered contents so far are good.  Guess I could have gone the Ubuntu route per http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306 and saved 80 bucks bu R-Studio looks real nice and reminds me of Norton Utilities from the old days.

At least the drives seem to be independent so I can recover them one at a time.  I thought X-RAID with 4 disks was RAID-5 like, but so far I don't see any striping, thankfully.  It's just going to take a long time.