Hi all,
I had a brief look on a 250G HDD from a Buffalo Linkstation I got in for power supply repair. First of all we had to determine whether the data is alive, so I hooked the HDD up to on of our PCs using an USB to IDE adaptor.
fdisk shows three partitions, one ext3 with the Linkstation OS, one swap and another, big ext3 with the data on it.
The partitions seem to have no super block, and the hardware detection does not create device nodes for the partitions, only for the disk itself. When I do this manually with mknode, mount yells at me that there's no valid partition.
Maybe I continue the learning process tomorrow by cloning the HDD, fixing the superblocks on the image and try it again, but I'd like to hear from your experiences first.