Iomega Storcenter 150d NAS - Failed

[slaphead]

Hi
I have a Iomega Storcenter, 4 x 250gb, raid 5, firmware 85.85. The other day it failed and after much research it wld appear the OS is probably corrupt. I can see the device using the Discovery tool but can't load up the Admin s/ware.

If I create a bootable usb pen using your s/ware will it be able to regain me access in order to copy of the data at least or is there a better way or sadly no way?

Thanks in an advance

Mark

[Joep]

Hello,

What utility do you intend to put on the USB pen? DiskPatch will probably not be able to help.

iRecover needs a running Windows. iRecover needs access to the individual disks (or raw disk images), so the disks would need to be taken out of the iomage device. And also it needs either NTFS or EXT to reconstruct array parameters. If it is a Linux Ext 2 file system and some flavor or md raid then make sure iRecover is set to scan for md-raid volumes (advanced config > disk and partitions) and iRecover may not even require a RAID scan as it may pick them up just like that.

Is the OS on a separate disk? Or on the array? It is probably some flavor of Linux and you may have some luck connecting the disks to a Linux PC or use a Linux live boot CD (on a Windows PC).

[slaphead]

Hi

Thanks for the quick response. I believe the file extn is Ext. The OS I understand resides on the 4 HDDs in the unit and that if I use the Recovery CD it'll reinstate the OS and wipe the data, um, not so much of a recovery then!

re USB - If I can get hold of USB CD wld you s/w be able to boot up the unit as the Iomega Recovery CD does or is it a case it must be Windows based?

I have a spare PC at present waiting for new Win 7 install but cld do Linux boot cd to do recovery.

Regards

Mark

[Joep]

Hello,

I believe the file extn is Ext. The OS I understand resides on the 4 HDDs in the unit and that if I use the Recovery CD it'll reinstate the OS and wipe the data, um, not so much of a recovery then!

I meant a Linux Live CD, just to make sure we understand eachother.

BTW .. I found some forum topics on this Storcenter and it looks like the file system used internally is XFS. And that is a file system that we don't support (iRecover).

[slaphead]

Hi

Done some more searching re file type, seems it's EXT2FS, slightly different to your suggestion, cld be a typo. So your s/w doesn't support this.......... :-(

Seemingly the Unit is compatible to certain ver of Linux e.g. Redhat 9, Mandrake 10 etc. Any point me going to the trouble of getting a PC booted up one of these [live CD] with the drives installed?

Regards

Mark

[Tom]

My first thought would be no, but I'm not very good with Linux at all. If I were you I'd contact Iomega and see if they can offer suggestions.

[Joep]

it's XFS

Edit: Is NOW supported by iRecover!

[slaphead]

Thanks one and all for your assistance. I'll bear your site in mind if I, a client or friend need a data recovery solution

Kind regards

Mark