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"Found Bad Disk" Recovery
I have an NV+ with 4.1.8. It's been running for several years. Recently it refused to boot with the message "found bad disk" on the LCD. Based on info from searching around in the forum, I pulled d...
With X-RAID e.g. on an NV+ (v1), the parity disk (usually disk 4 in a 4-bay system) does not have a partition table. The lack of a partition table on this disk is not a problem unless you're trying to do data recovery attempting to mount the volume in a PC. However as you've noticed you only need 3 working disks to recover data.
X-RAID is found on the Sparc devices e.g. NV+ v1 and not to be confused with X-RAID2 (found on x86 and ARM e.g. NV+ v2) which is a different RAID format.
You can have problems with multiple disks at once. It's unfortunate, but it happens. Would be a good idea to start regularly backing up data.
X-RAID is found on the Sparc devices e.g. NV+ v1 and not to be confused with X-RAID2 (found on x86 and ARM e.g. NV+ v2) which is a different RAID format.
You can have problems with multiple disks at once. It's unfortunate, but it happens. Would be a good idea to start regularly backing up data.
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