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nv+ 4.1.8 usb boot for a faulty drive
i have rnv-s2-0000 nv+ v1 (sparc) x-raid currently it gets stuck in the "booting..." sequence (with 4 drivers) i am trying drives one by one in slot 1, and so far only 1 hdd (previously in sl...
thank you for responding.
the unit has not been used since 2011 i think. so all drives should be consistent.
when testing drives one at a time in slot 1, i was able to boot with drive 3 successfully (hence the screenshot, confirming 4.1.8), but drive 4 presented "err bad firmware" which led me to believe that its copy of readynas firmware was corrupt, and i could write a good copy one on top of it. please correct me if my approach is wrong.
i will test the drives individually once i get the enclosure.
could you advise on the raid recovery approach?
the unit has not been used since 2011 i think.
So really old drives.
but drive 4 presented "err bad firmware" which led me to believe that its copy of readynas firmware was corrupt
The OS is stored on the disk, and the message does mean that the NAS is seeing issues with the OS partition.
But USB recovery doesn't fix that. It replaces the firmware copy in the NAS flash, and there is no evidence there is a problem with that flash. And the process does have some risk, so I don't recommend doing that.
i will test the drives individually once i get the enclosure.
could you advise on the raid recovery approach?Recovery would require at least three readable disks. Given their age, you might want to image them using software that does a sector-by-sector copy. Then you can recover useing the images.
R-Studio is one of several RAID recovery packages that has been used by other posters with some success:
- https://www.r-studio.com/
Note I haven't needed to use RAID recovery on my own systems, so I don't have personal experience with this software.
thank you - i understand. so i could also copy the working OS partition from working disk 3 onto disk 4, right?
but i understand that the usb restore won't restore the OS partition on the individual disk
i also understand that one needs 3 disks for the recovery to work
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