Unfortunately no one can be told what fun_plug is - you have to see it for yourself.
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I came in today and all of the shares to the DNS-323 have disappeared. Using the EasySearch utility, I find the DNS (still at the IP address that it always is), but there are no volumes listed.
Any clue as to what may have happened or how I can recover? I have 2 physical drives, Raid1.
Thanks and please let me know what other info I need to supply - I'm scrambling a bit here.
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What does the status page show?
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Can't get to the status page. When I go to the IP, and click "Configuration", it wants me to format the drives. It's as if it suddenly does not recognize the drives as having been already formatted (though they've been running for 2 years).
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Not a good sign at all - here's what I would do if I were in your situation.
Pull one of the drives and connect it to a PC running Windows XP with the ext2ifs file system driver loaded - that should allow you to access the data on it, and then back it up.
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Thanks for the advice. I ran ext2ifs on a Windows box, and it found and assigned letters to the drives. Unfortunately, when I tried to access them, I got a "Must be formatted to use" message. These drives appear to be completely blank...anyone experience this before? I'm assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that someone did not wipe these drives intentionally. Ever had a DNS-323 wipe it's own drives?
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Make sure you're looking at the correct drive letter - the DNS-323 drives have several partitions each one of which can be mapped, I believe you need the third partition - you may need to use the ext2ifs control panel tool to set this correctly.
What version of Windows are you using? I've used XP Pro, but not Vista and I have heard of folks experiencing problems using it with Vista.
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I did use Vista, as I don't have an XP box available. I show only 2 partitions on the drives, neither of which were readable. I'll hunt around and see if I can find an XP box.
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Only two partitions?? Either you haven't configured ext2ifs correctly - not that there's much to configure, but take a look at the contol panel applet, it should you either three or four partitions - or that's the reason the DNS-323 is prompting for a reformat - something has happened to the data partition.
Did you try both drives?
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Yep, tried both drives. Both had only 2 partitions. One was very small and the other was the bulk of the actual space on the drive(s). This makes me think that the data partition is indeed gone. I have backups, but I'm concerned going forward as to how this could have happened.
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If one of the partitions was "the bulk of the actual space on the drive(s)" that would be the data partition.
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No joy on XP either - still unreadable partitions. Thanks for all your help! Time to reformat and reconfigure.
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same thing just happened to me. bad hardware bouh
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I have the same problem I think.
When I login to the web config page I get the question about how to format the drives. If I choose skip I can see the configuration page as normal.
When I take a look at advanced/network access I can see that both volume_1 and volume_2 has disappeared. After I add them again with access for all users, read/write, I can map the drives again with the easy search utility.
Only problem I have now is that sometimes volume_1 disappears again from the network access list. Its easy to fix, but annoying.
Oh, and when they are gone and I cant access them through Vistas explorer, I can telnet in or use the FTP.
I am running FW 1,07, fun plug with NFS server. I was thinking about doing a factory restore, but I am worried that I am going to loose my telnet and NFS server which I had quite some problems installing.
Has anyone got any ideas why volume_1 keeps disappearing from the network access list?
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