Hello!

Anyone done any of these?

The drives are both fine, tested.

Seems the enclosure is dead.


Trying to rebuild virtually and nothing is working well.


Used Raid re constructor, it has not clue what to guess.

R-studio is what I have gotten closest with.

Seems: Use 4th partition only (extended partition that is ~940GB) and put in correct order, then 64kb stripe (searching around found that buffalo uses this)

no offset used so far.

Nothing shows up unless I scan, and even with scan i only get "extra found files".


Just want to know if there is something I am missing.


Thanks!

I think r-studio is wrong application. FS is likely XFS...

I have tried UFS explorer, but it can't seem to build it.

Can anyone confirm that with these you ignore other partitions and just RAID the extended partitions? (the 4th)

There is usually smaller system partitions at the start of each disk, so you can build based on partitions or as hardware RAID with an offset.

There may be other complications here, did you check the disk structures in winhex?

These discs have a ext3 boot partition.

Structures look good.


Each disk was tested with Atola Insight thoroughly. The disks themselves are sound with 0 reallocated sectors, and all sectors are responding within 10ms when scanning the media.

The failure described by the customer was a power spike in the office, and then it would no longer work.


Disks where imaged using Atola insight, bit for bit to a identically sized disk (used DCO to match LBA count)


the RAID headers look fine to me, I can post a the hex for them if you would like.


I have tried RAIDing by the boot partition with no luck, and have tried by raiding the entire disk, still no luck.

The only way I get anything is by raiding the data (XFS) partitions with 64k stripe and correct disk order, but even then I do not get directory structure.


This is what I found that led me to get to the point I am at: http://www.ufsexplorer.com/inf_terastation.php

of course this is a linkstation, not a terastation but I believe that the same principle applies to this.

Buffalo linkstation_pro_duo


First 3 partitions : mirrored
Offset of need stripted patition: 14024808
Start of partition header: XFSB (File system xFS)
Start ROOT after 128 sectors
Block-size 128 sectors

Use UFS Explorer. If something wrong , PM me.

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