1100 Recovery

Jobe · 04-17-2007, 07:27 PM

Had a friends 1100 go down, getting the no disk error. Was out of warranty so I threw the drive in my FreeBSD box and get all kinds of errors from dmesg and smartctl. Threw another HD in there to see what would happen and from the LED codes on the wiki looks to just sit in Diagnostic mode (system + disk light flashing in sync) Was hoping I could replace the drive with another but after reading these forums it looks that I need a boot image for the HD? He cant find the CD but we haven't given up yet. If we don't find it is he sol? Would suck to lose the data and the entire device.

Info from the snap server as follows:
1100 series OS: 4.0.860 (US) HW: 2.0.2 bios: 4.0.855

Thanks for any assistance.

blue68f100 · 04-17-2007, 07:55 PM

Snaps use a modified XFS file system, no other system can read there hd's. The led patern you mention is like some one tried to reset the snap and did not complete the access. If it's waiting for an OS it's normally a 1 x 2 code.

Try to copy the first 25meg of the hd using DD to a img file. If so you can recover from a HD failure. If the HD spins up, try SpinRite it may recover enough or repair the hd so it will boot again. If it fails at the 4-5% area, the HD is bad.

04-17-2007, 07:27 PM	#1
Jobe Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Shoe Posts: 2	1100 Recovery Had a friends 1100 go down, getting the no disk error. Was out of warranty so I threw the drive in my FreeBSD box and get all kinds of errors from dmesg and smartctl. Threw another HD in there to see what would happen and from the LED codes on the wiki looks to just sit in Diagnostic mode (system + disk light flashing in sync) Was hoping I could replace the drive with another but after reading these forums it looks that I need a boot image for the HD? He cant find the CD but we haven't given up yet. If we don't find it is he sol? Would suck to lose the data and the entire device. Info from the snap server as follows: 1100 series OS: 4.0.860 (US) HW: 2.0.2 bios: 4.0.855 Thanks for any assistance. Last edited by Jobe; 04-17-2007 at 07:45 PM.

04-17-2007, 07:55 PM	#2
blue68f100 Thermophile Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,135	Re: 1100 Recovery Snaps use a modified XFS file system, no other system can read there hd's. The led patern you mention is like some one tried to reset the snap and did not complete the access. If it's waiting for an OS it's normally a 1 x 2 code. Try to copy the first 25meg of the hd using DD to a img file. If so you can recover from a HD failure. If the HD spins up, try SpinRite it may recover enough or repair the hd so it will boot again. If it fails at the 4-5% area, the HD is bad. __________________ 1 Snap 4500 - 1.0T (4 x 250gig WD2500SB RE), Raid5, 1 Snap 4500 - 1.6T (4 x 400gig Seagates), Raid5, 1 Snap 4200 - 4.0T (4 x 2gig Seagates), Raid5, Using SATA converts from Andy Link to SnapOS FAQ's http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=13820

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