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ReadyNAS RAID Configuration
Hello, I'm trying to recover data from a ReadyNAS (not sure the model I only have access to the drives currently). It was originally a configured as X-RAID2, then was mistakenly re-configured by t...
The older NV+ (RND4250 - no X) uses a dedicated parity disk (and hardware-accelerated raid). In those systems the parity drive has the OS partition but no data partition.
Jared wrote: Wow, this thing is a real pain. I've eliminated every possible combination of RAID 5 using 8Kb, 16Kb, 32Kb, 64Kb, 128Kb with no success. There isn't a chance that this thing was using a fixed parity disk is there??? I've verified quite a number of sectors using XOR and it's definitely using parity. That, or the customer really isn't giving me the whole story here and something is way off.
If you think its possible that the customer got the wrong model number, you might find something useful in this guide: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306
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