Posted this a few days ago in another forum and got zero response. Hoping someone here has some useful information.
I have (had) a 2TB Buffalo NAS drive LS-X2.0TL. Came back from a couple weeks away to find it inaccesible. Decided to try updating the firmware via their online support. Tech was able to help me get it visible enough to start the firmware update process, but it hung up while doing that (apparently it takes a couple resets of the drive and it never came back after one of those). So call them back and now the tech says that happens sometimes and if it can not be seen it is a lost cause. Would have been nice to tell me after they got it mounted enough to start the firmware update that it was a risky procedure, maybe i would have been able to recover some data.
Anyway, they would not support me taking the drive out of the case so now I am on my own. Thought perhaps the problem was in the NAS controller and maybe would be able to see the drive if mounted SATA directly but no luck.
So my first question is - how are these things set up? Is the drive formatted normally on the other side of the NAS controller, so if the drive is working properly and you pull it off the controller and connect it directly would that normally work, or is there likely some other format for the NAS controller that would not be perceived by the SATA controller directly, cause if it is then I might still be able to see the data if the problem is the controller and not the drive.
And if the format is standard and the controller is not the problem (unlikely i realize) can i just swap out the HDD and use another in its place to test if the NAS controller is still functioning and if so then at least get the use of that. Would the replacement drive have to in any way match the swapped drive?
Also wondering in general how these drives work with XP if the NAS exceeds the normal 2.2 TB limit of XP. Does the NAS controller bypass that limitation or do I still need to deal w GPT formatting, etc to access the larger capacity over the network?
Any information appreciated.
ed
I have (had) a 2TB Buffalo NAS drive LS-X2.0TL. Came back from a couple weeks away to find it inaccesible. Decided to try updating the firmware via their online support. Tech was able to help me get it visible enough to start the firmware update process, but it hung up while doing that (apparently it takes a couple resets of the drive and it never came back after one of those). So call them back and now the tech says that happens sometimes and if it can not be seen it is a lost cause. Would have been nice to tell me after they got it mounted enough to start the firmware update that it was a risky procedure, maybe i would have been able to recover some data.
Anyway, they would not support me taking the drive out of the case so now I am on my own. Thought perhaps the problem was in the NAS controller and maybe would be able to see the drive if mounted SATA directly but no luck.
So my first question is - how are these things set up? Is the drive formatted normally on the other side of the NAS controller, so if the drive is working properly and you pull it off the controller and connect it directly would that normally work, or is there likely some other format for the NAS controller that would not be perceived by the SATA controller directly, cause if it is then I might still be able to see the data if the problem is the controller and not the drive.
And if the format is standard and the controller is not the problem (unlikely i realize) can i just swap out the HDD and use another in its place to test if the NAS controller is still functioning and if so then at least get the use of that. Would the replacement drive have to in any way match the swapped drive?
Also wondering in general how these drives work with XP if the NAS exceeds the normal 2.2 TB limit of XP. Does the NAS controller bypass that limitation or do I still need to deal w GPT formatting, etc to access the larger capacity over the network?
Any information appreciated.
ed