[GH85Carrera]

Golly what a fun day.

We have a Buffalo TS-8VH24TL/R6. Eight drives and it started having issues. It was a Raid with one hot spare so in theory two drives could fail and still not lose data. Evidently we lost two drives at nearly the same time. Evidently when my business partner replaced the he somehow swapped tow of the other drives in the wrong slots. It was trashed. So he tried to re-format it and start fresh. After almost two months is was still checking drives. So something was FUBAR.

He pulled each drive out, and deleted all the partitions on every drive. That will force it to rebuild fro scratch he figured. Well he was right, now it only has a boot failure. The firmware for the system is on those drives.

In digging around on the internet I found a place that had a similar issue, and he has the steps to rebuild the firmware. It is 100% Linux. So he starts out with format a boot USB drive and assumes the reader is familiar with Linux. I am not that person.

So now I need to find someone with basic knowledge of Linux to walk me through it and interpret the instructions. Otherwise we have 8 - 3 TB drive in a neat box as a paperweight.