WD Mybookworld II died a death :(

[brycec]

Hi guys, someone may have asked this previously.

Basically I had a WD mybookworld II (this was the 2TB version with ethernet connection as well as USB). It's worked fine for a couple of years but has finally given up the ghost, however I do not believe that the HDDs are stuffed, so I've removed them (which involved taking the whole damn thing to pieces) and put the drives in slots 1 and 2 of a new HP proliant microserver (yes the one with £100 quid off from E-buyer).

Using freeNAS as my OS (with a bootable USB stick), I can see drives A and B (as well as another new drive that I've added which is currently blank) however I cannot restore or insert a volume.
Now I had both drives as one big formatted partition and from looking at the user guide it suggests that an NTFS paired partition is not supported (note that I did not have these in any RAID format as I was more interested in overall space than anything else)...

Question: Have I lost all the data from the drives and do I need to wipe and start again? (I had nearly 1.6TB of stuff on them so I'd prefer to try and read it using the shell tools if at all possible?!?)

Please help!

Note that it will be, to quote Terry Pratchett, a major embuggerance if I have to start again...

 

[cyberjock]

You should be asking this question of the WD forums. I'm not really sure why you are even asking this question of FreeNAS.

 

[brycec]

Well, because I'm using freeNAS to try and look at these drives now... I'd rather not wipe them and it could be something simple as getting the mount commands right.

I suspect if I post the same on the WD forum they will direct me here, but I shall go and do so just in case.

 

[joeschmuck]

Agreed, this is a question for a WD forum. Just because you placed your WD drives into a FreeNAS box doesn't mean it's a FreeNAS topic.

But... It's likely the WD forum could tell you the answer. The solution could be buying a new WD Mybookworld II and plugging them in there if you want to have any hopes of pulling off your data. That is what I'd do if the data was that important. One thing keeps coming to mind as I read these forums where people are loosing data... Back up your data! We cannot say it enough. If it's important, burn it to a CD/DVD.

 

[brycec]

This is one of those "after the horse has bolted" moments unfortunately, also I'd have to back up over 1TB of data to CD...

The point is that if the GUI won't "recognise" the drives I thought that there could be a shell command that might allow me to at least access what's on the drive before wiping and starting from scratch.
Hence why I've asked.

 

[joeschmuck]

Well, because I'm using freeNAS to try and look at these drives now... I'd rather not wipe them and it could be something simple as getting the mount commands right.

I suspect if I post the same on the WD forum they will direct me here, but I shall go and do so just in case.

Why would the WD forum direct you to the FreeNAS forum?

You have drives which were created in a WD enclosure and they were a RAID0 configuration which means the data is spread across the two drives. That means a single file will have fragments spread across both drives. The formatting used in the WD enclosure could be proprietary as well, I sure don't know. Given your RAID0 configuration you are very likely to not recover any data from those drives but hopefully I'm wrong for your sake.

If the drives were not in a RAID configuration then you would have a fighting chance.

I gave you my best advice in the previous posting but you should visit the WD forum.

Now if you want to wipe out those drives and use them in the FreeNAS box, we can help you there.

 

[brycec]

I can at least see what it thinks it is:

gpart show /dev/ada0
=> 63 1953525105 ada0 MBR (931G)
63 48132 - free - (23M)
48195 5879790 1 linux-raid (2.8G)
5927985 208845 2 linux-raid (102M)
6136830 1975995 3 linux-raid (964M)
8112825 1945407240 4 linux-raid (927G)
1953520065 5103 - free - (2.5M)

and:

gpart show /dev/ada1
=> 63 1953525105 ada1 MBR (931G)
63 48132 - free - (23M)
48195 5879790 1 linux-raid (2.8G)
5927985 208845 2 linux-raid (102M)
6136830 1975995 3 linux-raid (964M)
8112825 1945407240 4 linux-raid (927G)
1953520065 5103 - free - (2.5M)

interesting ....

 

[cyberjock]

There's lots of variables, including the fact that everything WD uses to make those work may be proprietary. The only people that will have any information, assuming any is available to the general public, is the WD forum. This forum is only going to be useful if you have a problem with a FreeNAS setup, not trying to pull data from some other device.

You could have simply bought a second device for backups. There's a reason why I have my sig.

 

[brycec]

Yup I totally agree a backup would be good right about now. Agree with the proprietary comment, it's very likely the thing that stops freeNAS from recognising what they are. Other than that there's no issues with getting freeNAS working. The help guides are spot on (first time I've used it with a USB boot stick).

 

[clefus]

I just had this happen to me....I was able to mount a single drive using a USB adapter in Ubuntu. (if I had 2 I think it would pull the RAID part)...I think I used ext3 or 2 to mount...came right up...copied data to external drive using rsync.

Haven't built my home freenas yet.