Power off, add another empty drive, boot and voilà! like nothing has ever happened to the thing. Mounted, extracted the files and the NAS started. While waiting the files to download I’ve copied the partitions table onto a new disk, created the raid1 on first and mkfs’ed ext2 on it.

I’ve found this blog post by a French collègue (my eternal gratitude) who saved and shared original files from his NAS. Mounting the mirror … Ughm, on both drives it is a virgin ext2 with only lost+found showing up.Īfter an hour of googling, and mind you, with ix2 being the first of the line and a bunch of variations followed, it was not a simple task. Makes sense, we’ve got a small mirror and a big linear here. Md126 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdc1 Next step then.ĭisks out, just to be sure, checking the S.M.A.R.T.

The “owner” of this product line has changed and probably more than once and there are all kind of software and versions iomega support offers to download none listening on udp/2080. But couldn’t find one the NAS is looking for. So it seems to be looking for some manager. The packets seem to be some binary protocol with only “m1” and mac address readable as strings. Asks for IP, gets it and then just sits there periodically sending broadcast UDP to the port 2080. So, first things first, hook it up to my notebook, setup a local dhcp server and start tcpdump. So I picked the thing up to see what’s inside and if it’s worth wasting time with or just buy another one. He is a smart guy but he is not into computers. A week ago he called me telling the thing is dead and he has run out of ideas. And he was considerably happy given the price he paid for it. A friend of mine was using this NAS for some time.

Iomega storcenter ix2 setup software