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Originally Posted by blue68f100
If that does not do it, Phoenix32 (andy) normally check in. He has worked on the 4400 and may beable to advise you on what may be the best way.
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Yes, I have worked on a bunch of them. I have 6 of them myself right now, 3 of which I will be selling soon.
Okay, let's try to settle a few basics that seem to be getting lost in the chaos here.
First, if the unit was set up as RAID 5 before and 2 drives died, then the data is GONE! DEAD! GOODBYE! BIT HEAVEN! Unless of course you want to spend a lot of $$$ sending all the drives to a restore service and hoping then can repair the bad drives and rebuild the RAID 5. But you are talking lots of $$$.
Next, the Guardian OS is stored in a hidden partition on each of the drives. Thus, reguardless of the data partitions being in RAID 5 and now gone, the OS should still be present on the two remaining good drives. Notice I said, "should" not "will" be there. I cannot say what condition those partitions are in if it has been running so long as ot have drives dieing.
Yes, you can move the OS from one Guardian unit to another, but since the 520 uses SATA and the 4400 uses PATA, this presents new challenges I won't go into here.
Try booting the 4400 on either of the two remaining drives in slot one (left). If one doesn't work, try the other.
Use the Snap Server Manager to detect the unit (after a respectable bootup time, say 5 to 10 minutes).
If all else fails, I am a technician and if you want to send it to me for refurbishing, we can discuss that in e-mail.
Hope this helps...