Hi all,
I have an LS-WTGL/R1-V3, firmware #3.10, set up as a 1TB RAID 0. It has worked fine for the last year, but suddenly decided to go south on me.
Recently, I tried hooking a Seagate FreeAgent USB drive to the Linkstation. It works fine for a few days, then becomes inaccessible to the Linkstation and the PCs on the network. The LS web access page shows the name and model of the drive, but under the capacity and file sytem listing, it says "not available". Reformatting the USB drive fixes the problem for a week or so, then it goes right back to the problem.
While I went to tinker with that problem yesterday, I noticed the RAID on the Linkstation had mysteriously gone from 66% full to 0.02% full, meaning 600GB of data decided to disappear. The share folder is listed on the LS, and in Explorer on all the PCs (XP and Vista), but clicking on it simply times out with a "path not found" error. Thinking maybe the RAID was corrupt, I ran the disk check through the web admin, but everything came back okay. I can create a second shared folder through the LS, and that works just fine.
Last but not least, I noticed that the power LED front of the unit went from solid blue for the last year or so to solid green now. I'm, not quite sure what that means...
So, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what to try to get my data back? Or should I just bite the bullet, pull the drives out, stick them in a Linux box and pray that I can drag something out of the RAID? I've done all I can think of, so any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!