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Unable to retrieve data from ReadyNAS Duo
Hi All, I had a ReadyNAS duo which has, for want of better words, "blown up" on me! I am trying to recover the data off the drive with little success despite vast amounts of reading on this forum,...
mdgm might have some ideas on how to fix your mount options, it doesn't to like the 16384 block size.
But it can't read the data from the parity disk, which is a problem if the Duo failure corrupted the data disk somehow. The raid recovery software in my earlier link might work with the parity disk - if the eval sees the data, you'd need to purchase the software I think.
Netgear also offers recovery services - you pay up front, with no guarantee of success.
Your last option is to get a used duo v1 or nv+ from somewhere, and install the disks in it. We have seen some reports here of people selling broken NAS, so there is some risk there too.
The freeware Linux Reader package (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/) can access the first [data] disk if you can connect the disk to a Windows system.
mdgm wrote: The second disk is not blank. With X-RAID on Sparc, the second disk is the dedicated parity disk. It does not have the partition table on it, so your PC thinks it is blank when it really isn't.
Newer models use distributed parity.
But it can't read the data from the parity disk, which is a problem if the Duo failure corrupted the data disk somehow. The raid recovery software in my earlier link might work with the parity disk - if the eval sees the data, you'd need to purchase the software I think.
Netgear also offers recovery services - you pay up front, with no guarantee of success.
Your last option is to get a used duo v1 or nv+ from somewhere, and install the disks in it. We have seen some reports here of people selling broken NAS, so there is some risk there too.
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