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Products => Storage => : LearningCurve December 30, 2019, 06:27:08 AM
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Hi,
My ls-wxl has just died, blue light started flashing and will not get past that so I have no access to it at all.
I have removed the drives both of which seem fine, and attached them to a linux PC.
The drives are Samsung HD502HI.
I ran gparted and both drives gave the same information as follows;
Partition Name Filesystem Size Used Unused Flags
/dev/sde1 primary linux-raid 976.55MiB - - msftdata
/dev/sde2 primary linux-raid 4.77GiB - - msftdata
/dev/sde3 ! primary unknown 512.00B - - msftdata
/dev/sde4 ! primary unknown 512.00B - - msftdata
/dev/sde5 primary linux-raid 976.56MiB - - msftdata
/dev/sde6 primary linux-raid 451.53GiB - - msftdata
unallocated unallocated 7.55GiB - - msftdata
I cannot mount any partitions to read them and copy data from them.
I could presumably delete all the partitions and reused the drives as they do not appear to have any problems.
As these are linux-raid partitions I wondered if it would be possible to use the linux software raid mdadm software to access them.
If this is possible could anyone let me know how I would do this and indeed if there is any other way.
Your help is appreciated in advance,
many thanks
Mike
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You should be able to. I posted some notes on how to do this in a recent post:
https://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=32858.msg101343#msg101343
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Hi 1000001101000,
thanks for the very prompt reply.
I have obviously been searching elsewhere too.
I have found roughly the same solution on a ubuntu forum with the --scan etc. and it seems to have worked for one or two people.
I am about to set up a replacement server running lubuntu as I've had several problems.
I do like buffalo products and have had a variety over the years and this linkstation has been great until the day it suddenly decided to give up the ghost.
Once I get this server up and running, I will give this a go and build a new replacement raid.
Many thanks for your help,
Mike