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loss of array after drive failure; problems with ST3500320AS
At the top, a modest complaint about the operation of the forum. I started a message several hours ago, and then got interrupted. To be on the safe side I copied the text out to notepad but left the...
Logs will probably not be helpful. Nothing remarkable in them beyond what I have already described.
I'm not sure about the OS reinstall. Does it reside on the drives or in non-volatile memory of some sort?
I have put in a request with tech support, which has acknowledged receipt but not yet said yea or nea.
Finally, as one added experiment, I removed all existing drives and installed a single 1TB Seagate 524AS. The machine came up, found the drive AND the volume, all visible on Raidar, but when I tried getting in via Frontview I found to my surprise that the admin password had been reset to the netgear default, and the device wanted to update the firmware immediately. (I did not let it.)
At this point I'd be happy to ditch the existing drives (I can use them for spares for a duo elswhere in the house) and install 1TB's. But I would really like to try and sort out what happened, and to recover the data from this array and copy it to the new drives. Does the fact that the machine works normally with a completely fresh drive in it shed any light on the hypothesis that the OS partition was full? That would only make sense if that resided on the hard drive.
Thanks.
I'm not sure about the OS reinstall. Does it reside on the drives or in non-volatile memory of some sort?
I have put in a request with tech support, which has acknowledged receipt but not yet said yea or nea.
Finally, as one added experiment, I removed all existing drives and installed a single 1TB Seagate 524AS. The machine came up, found the drive AND the volume, all visible on Raidar, but when I tried getting in via Frontview I found to my surprise that the admin password had been reset to the netgear default, and the device wanted to update the firmware immediately. (I did not let it.)
At this point I'd be happy to ditch the existing drives (I can use them for spares for a duo elswhere in the house) and install 1TB's. But I would really like to try and sort out what happened, and to recover the data from this array and copy it to the new drives. Does the fact that the machine works normally with a completely fresh drive in it shed any light on the hypothesis that the OS partition was full? That would only make sense if that resided on the hard drive.
Thanks.
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