Hi,
We are **bleep** station failed, I know I would easily read my disc using linux. Additionnally, I realized that there was absoluetly no XFS support from OS X. And this is what I did: I installed ubuntu (in emulation on the mac, always using VMWare). With ubuntu installed, the ext3 USB disc was recognised and I could access the content.
I couldn't test with XFS disc with my Ubuntu emulation as I didn't have any more a USB disc XFS formated... The XFS is officially supported under linux, but I cannot tell you if it will mount automatically of if you will need to mount it by command line.
From Windows, the issue is the same... all these proprietary OSs have very limited understanding of non-native disc format.
So one solution that should work:
1) Download VMware **bleep**)
2) Install a appliance of Linux (I used Ubuntu desktop)
3) Connect the USB disc and start linux in emulation
I did the same except that I had a real version of VMware **bleep** also for you.
Maybe is parallel supporting and providing linux emulation (I never tried parallel) ?
Other solution: ask a linux-installed PC to a friend (or find an old machine to install ubuntu or other distribution of linux).
In any case, concerning the **bleep** station at all is very strange...
If you buy a new NAS that support XFS disc in USB (important detail to check...), you should then be able to get access to you data again. You just need to think creating a shared **bleep** that the fan is starting as expected?
I hope this helps.