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.

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.