HI
My Terastation recently crashed and I need to recover some files from the Raid 5 setup. I read one of the forums that setting up a linux machine maybe able to get the files back. I already have a Red Hat linux setup but not sure what to do in terms of recovering the files.
Would someone please offer some advice?
Thanks in advance...
Thanks PCPiranha,
The motherboard/raid controller took a drive and the entire terastation is now malfunctioning. I am not able to access anything in the drives. I called tech support and they confirmed the board is bad. They did mention I might be able to recover the data if I connect the drives to a Linux machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
It appears that since the original Terastation uses a PowerPC processor, you can't just mount the drives into any Linux machine and expect to recover the data... you would need a PowerPC Mac running Linux. This is because x86 (regular PC) processors are big-endian, and PowerPC processors are little-endian.
It may just be better to use UFS Explorer to recover this data. The liscense costs about 50$, I believe.
Sorry for the confusion
Is the UFS Explorer the only option at this point? I do not have access to a powerPC MAC
Thanks
Hi PCPiranha,
Thanks for this this information. I have a similar problem. My LinkStation Live (HS-DH500GL) stopped working (it powers of automatically and starts beeping within minutes after I turn it on) and I pulled out the hard drive and plugged it into a external hard drive enclosure to retrieve data from it. I got UFS Explorer but when I connect the enclosure to a windows PC through USB it does not detect the drive.
I tried to read data from this hard drive using a Ubuntu boot disk on a PowerPC Mac. Ubuntu detects the 4 partitions but was able to mount only one partition. It was unable to mount the main XFS partition which is approximately 465GB. When I try to mount this partition it gives the 'mount: /dev/sdb6: can't read superblock' error.
I also tried updating the firmware on the linkstation box to the latest one using a Windows PC but it did not work. Everything kept freezing and soon the unit would power off with a beeping sound.
Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can recover data from this hard drive.
lklive,
If it's giving you superblock errors, there's a problem with the filesystem (corruption, most likely). xfs_repair MAY help fix the filesystem, but BEWARE... this may damage the data more. So if you're ok with the risk that the data may become completely unrecoverable, try xfs_repair.
Otherwise, I suggest contacting ESS Data Recovery (http://www.datarecovery.com/).
This is general advice, not official recommendation.