Linkstation live CHL file system corrupt?

[radiant777]

   

My Linkstation chl was dropped about six inches onto a concrete floor.  After this occured it rebooted into em mode once flashing six red lights indicating I believe a hard drive recognition error. I attempted to reboot again to verify the error and it disappeard from the network.  I looked up the ip address on the lan and it came up 169.254.150.137...it was pingable but I could'nt log onto the admin page.  After screwing around for awhile trying to get into admin I decided to check the hard drive.  I dissasembled the case removed the hard drive and installed it into a buffalo 1tb usb external drive I had laying around.  I work in windows so I didnt have native xfs support.  The only option I could find for reading xfs in windows was UFS recovery tools.  I accessed the drive using UFS and found several small XFS partitions but the main 935gb partition was listed as unknown file system and is unbrowsable.  While any suggestions are welcome here are my main questions....

 

1. Does "unknown file system" indicate a broken file structure or does buffalo use some proprietary file system for its main partition?

 

2. If the file structure is broken could it be repaired using xfs_repair in linux?

 

3. Does the fact that i'm getting a 169 adddress on the network indicate a problem other than a hard drive issue or is that normal when the station can't find a valid disk?

 

I'm really hoping someone on this forum can help...thanks in advance 

[Colin137]

1. We use standard XFS, so it seems like it's a broken filesystem.

 

2. Possibly.

 

3. Sometimes the devices will use 169.254.x.x if it can't find an address from DHCP, so that's probably unrelated.

 

I recommend making an image of the data partition, mount the image in linux, then run xfs_repair on it. If that doesn't work, you'll still have the disk itself unchanged, then if it's worth it to you, you can enlist the help of a data recovery company.