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NAS fell and hit the ground...
ReadyNAS NV+, with four 2tb drives. The shelf it was on in the basement collapsed, and NAS hit the concrete floor. At least 3 of the 4 drives had popped out upon impact (still in their slots, but h...
Assuming XRAID/RAID5, you can try booting with each set of three and see if it will mount a degraded volume from them.
Yes it is RAIDX.. Does a hung check-fs indicate a drive failure? Won't I lose the array if I picked the wrong one to pull out? Or can it be done in a read-only type mode?
pourpain wrote:
Yes it is RAIDX.. Does a hung check-fs indicate a drive failure? Won't I lose the array if I picked the wrong one to pull out?
Possible there is drive damage. If you start with the NAS powered down you can boot up with any drive removed. Make sure the NAS is powered down before you try again with a different drive.
pourpain wrote:
Or can it be done in a read-only type mode?
You unfortunately can't boot up read-only, but you can boot up skipping the file system check. The details depends on exactly which NAS hardware you have. Does your system run 4.1.x firmware or 5.3.x?
It is older 4.1 unit. It stayed at 64% all day, unit was hung up. So I unplugged and trying checkfs again now. I see the boot menu if I hold the power button, so I know how to boot and bypass checkfs if that is advisable. Trying to be careful, and recover without losing data (i can reload/recover if required, but it will take weeks... hoping to avoid that).
Editing to ask questions:
1) Should I attempt boot and bypass checkfs first? Or attempt boot with 3 drives first? I'm guessing 'bypass checkfs' is the safer option.
2) i see in documentation, the factory reset option will do a 5 minute disk test. Then go into a 10 minute wait period, where I can exit back out. Is this a good option to try first? I don't see a way to do a sort of disk test otherwise.
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