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Successful Readynas X6 X-RAID data recovery
Writing this down in case it's useful to anyone. A few weeks ago my old Readynas X6 would no longer boot but I was pretty sure the disks were all in decent shape. Firmware is 4.1.6 and it has 4x500...
mdgm wrote: :) Nice writeup.
Are you able to mount the 2GB OS partition?
What are the contents of /var/spool/frontview and its sub-directories?
Yes, I just tried and was able to mount the root partition using the disk1.dsk image and an offset of 1024 bytes. Here's the content below /var/spool/frontview:
ls -lR frontview/
frontview/:
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 98 98 89 Nov 8 2010 60_SERVICE_READYNASREMOTE
drwx------ 2 98 98 4096 Sep 2 2009 boot
drwx------ 2 98 98 4096 Aug 2 2009 shutdown
frontview/boot:
total 8
-rwx------ 1 98 98 1197 Mar 19 2007 00_UpdateVendorResource
-rwx------ 1 98 98 1942 Jul 13 2009 01_AddColdSpare
frontview/shutdown:
total 4
-rwx------ 1 98 98 3735 Jul 13 2009 080_Poweron
Does anything look amiss?
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