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dradams
Oct 30, 2012Aspirant
Help with drive failure
Hi, I had a power supply failure on my ReadyNAS NV+ (I'm now on my third power supply). In the process, I apparently lost one of my disks. My raid array is not coming up. Would some kind soul be wi...
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 30, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
If you have the USB disk connected to another Linux box try running that smartctl command on it and see if ATA errors are reported. I was looking at the status log (this is the one that shows under Status > Logs in Frontview when it's working) which showed an extremely high ATA error count in late October for disk 1. Though I would have thought it would use the 1, 2, 3, 4 numbering scheme as that's what is presented in Frontview and the way most users would think about it. This suggests to me that it's possible the disk with ATA errors could be the USB disk, with the ATA errors being misleading reported in Frontview as if they were on an internal disk.
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