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reconstructing a ReadyNAS 212 when I don't know which drive went in which bay
Hi All,
Bit of a unique situation, and complex - will make it as clear as possible.
During a recent project I had two RN212 NAS systems, believed to be set to RAID 1, set to collect a ...
aber_16 wrote:
(Please correct me if im wrong and this has been done - I tried Windows, Mac OS X, Linux). Additionally, there is now some confusion if in fact the NAS were set up in RAID 1 or 0.
You can mount them under Linux, but you do need mdadm and btrfs-progs installed. Something like
# mdadm --assemble --scan
# cat /proc/mdstat
# mount -t btrfs -o ro /dev/md127 /mnt
If it is RAID-1 you can certainly reverse the drives (and you can try mounting in linux with only one, since they are mirrored).
I believe that is also the case with RAID-0, but I've never tried it. Perhaps JohnCM_S Marc_V or another Netgear mod can confirm.
But it should safe to use the commands above with RAID-0 also.
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