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Hello,
I searched the forum but this does not seem to have been a problem for others.
Yesterday when I got home from work the shared drives on the DNS-323 were gone. Windows XP Pro SP2 & Mac OS 10.5. I rebooted it and still nothing. Did it again and that is when I noticed the "Network Activity Light" was not lit. The corresponding light on the gigabit switch was not lit either. I swapped cables, tried a different switch port, plugged it into my router directly (WRT54GL, ethernet light on router just slowly blinked), removed drives and blew out dust and moths reinserted drives, tried without drives - all nothing.
The only other thing out of the ordinary that day was that the radio on my wireless internet-and-or-router was locked. (Maybe had some power flickers that day, I live in the sticks.) After rebooting both, the internet worked again. (They all three run off of the same UPS which runs a long time with just them when power is out though.)
The unit appears to boot properly. Power switch light behaves correctly. The HD LEDs blink normally and then come on blue. Has normal sounds, fan works - just no LAN.
The Network Activity Light flashes momentarily when first starting the unit then nothing. I also downloaded the D-Link Easy Search Utility 4.2.0.0 and it came up blank.
I am able to access all other computers and all network functions work properly. I think I had the 1.02b firmware with a static IP (I know it was static) that is lost from memory. I set it up March, 2007 and it has worked perfectly ever since. After checking D-link web site, nothing, and calling tech support, (message said get credit card ready, I hung up), I thought to ask you all.
I have a BU in the Safety deposit box that is a month old and I am sure I can retrieve the more recent data on the hard drives now (fingers crossed) but I want the unit to run again. New ones are ~$160 after rebate and times are hard. This dang thing is only 16 months old.
Does D-Link do out of warranty repairs?
Any ideas guys?
Thanks for any and all help.
kevo
P.S. I no speaky zee Linux but would learn easy stuff if forced.
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The data shouldn't be too difficult to recover - as long as you weren't running a RAID0 or JBOD configuration - you can hook the drives up to a Windows system (XP preferably) and load ext2ifs, but, if you have swapped cables and switch ports, I think your hardware is toast.
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It was a RAID 1 so I am pretty sure the data is safe.
I was really hoping someone would say "Oh that, you can fix it easy like this."
Does anyone know if it can be sent to D-link and be fixed or exchanged at a reasonable price?
Also, can ext2ifs be used to run one of the drives for a period of time under XP until I get something else set up (a few weeks), or should I transfer the data to a FAT-32 or NTFS drive.
Thanks for the reply.
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Get ext2ifs ...search for it on the net. I have a problem in that my HD lights are dim blue (they were 'normal' blue ever since I can remember) but the unit works fine. After installing 1.05 I noticed the dim blue..probably a coincidence.... then I started messing with Windows Media Server but at that time did not know it did not support the DNS-323. I was trying to configure WMC to access the 323 and I yellowlighted one of the drives! I never saw this before so I checked here and then in the goweb interface and see that the unit status 'sync time remaining' did not show complete. To make a long story.... longer!!...
I got ext2ifs and installed it on my XP machine and since I have SATA on the MB I just opened the case and installed the yellowlighted drive on the SATA cable and started the XP computer. Sure enough, I was able to access the filesystem of the drive that was supposedly crapped out! I THINK I had to open Control Panal/IFS Drives since the DNS-323 drive did not automatically mount, but I cannot remember. This is not too hard and the docs on the web and included with ext2ifs helped.
The short of this is, the drive was accessable just like a fat, fat32, or ntfs drive....!! But I would copy your files to a safe place just for safetysake.
Good Luck!
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