SITUATION:
LS421de with 2 - 2TB HDs (1.81 TB true). Transferred 181GB into drives (10%). Manually copied data to both drives. Both drives contain same data. Drives are set up NOT RAID! Do NOT want RAID. Setup as JBOD. First drive will be main network file location, the second drive will be a backup to the first and manually replicated from time to time.
If one drive or the unit fails, I want to have access to the other drive with little effort to recover the data.
EVENT:
Giving my new LS421de some final tests. Both drives have same files on them. Shut down device and pulled HD #1. Restarted device. Eventually HD #2 was accessible. Shut down device. Put back in HD #1.
PROBLEM!!!
System now tells me it cannot recognize drive #1! That I must reformat the drive!!! It give me a non-existent Error 32!! (Three long blinks followed by 2 short ones.) E32 is NOT listed in the owners manual! I do not want to reformat this drive! In theory it has all my files on it!
All I did was pull the drive, boot, shutdown, reinserted drive and booted again!
I tried it again: I shut it down again. Pulled HD #1. Restarted, HD #2 is still functional. Shut down again, reinserted HD #1. Made sure it was firmly pushed in. System STILL give E32 error (which does not exist) STILL insists that the drive be REFORMATTED!! This is NOT acceptable!
Yes, it can see the drive but it will NOT allow anyone to access the data on it and insists it be reformatted. The manual mentions a "rediscover disk" option, but that choice is grayed out. It can see the disk, it just won't allow the disk to be pulled, turned on, turned off and reinserted the disk. NOTHING was done to the pulled disk except to shutdown, pull disk #1 out, boot, shutdown, push disk #1 back in, reboot.
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Are you telling us that if FOR ANY REASON we pull one of the drives and stick it back in we will NOT be able to access the data??? What if I want to store the drive and then later want to put it back in to restore old data??
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I need a solution to this within 15 days or I will take it back to the store I purchased it from and buy something else.
I am already a little peeved it will only format in XFS, which means I cannot pull it and immediately use it in a Windows PC.
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DOES anyone know how I can recover a pulled drive WITHOUT being forced to reformat it?
(A future test will involve pulling BOTH drives, booting, shutting down, reinsert drives, reboot and seeing if it insists I reformat both. This will happen AFTER I pull the data from the drives! After I have backed up the data I will be running further tests for 15 days.)
... Thank you.