OK, I need help from the brain trust. We have three Buffalo Network storage RAIDS. Two of them have been flawless for many long years. The newest one is making me very frustrated.
The problem child is a Terrastation TS-8VH24TL/R6 which was setup as RAID5. Everything was working fine. It had the latest Firmware update as of last month. Last week one of the eight 3TB drives failed. OK, no big deal, just replace it with a replacement identical drive. While that one was trying to rebuild another drive failed. Oh crap.
The rebuild failed and now the RAID will not mount. We can see the name of the RAID and the 6 drives are all happy, but it will not mount and rebuild.
Tech support for Buffalo is useless. Apparently if the unit is not in warranty they will not even talk to a customer. I have dug around on various forums and found one possible thread of help but it involves a flavor of Unix called Knoppix. I downloaded the DVD ISO image, burned a DVD and then built a boot thumb drive of Koppix 7.6
This is what I see. The one Seagate drive is actually a 3000 Gig or 3 TB drive. Knopix see it as a 5.1 GB drive. with several partitions. Window only can see some partitions and no data at all, so Knoppix or some flavor of Unix is necessary.
If I try to open any of the other partitions in Knoppix I get this:
So back to the first picture. The files that are boxes are some sort of compressed file. Is my data in there? This is drive #2 which I picked at random. It is one of the drives that is working. I can't open those compressed files with anything I have now
Am I just wasting my time here or or is there a way to recover any of the data on the six remaining drive? Any and all helpful suggestions will be welcome.