My Lacie NWS2 HDD died

[JDZ01]

How sad, the HDD in my Networkspace2 died, after about 5 years active service. It is clicking for about 30 seconds, an than it stops totally. The NWSP2 is blinking blue-red (never saw this before ;) ).

Some questions for this forum.
a) does anybody know a trick so I can read (and copy) my old HDD
b) If I buy a new HDD, how can I install it in my Lacie-case, and how can I place the FVDW firmware on it?
c) I experimented with the Plex-mediaserver on my Lacie. Actually the Lacie was too slow for Plex, in my opinion. Is there a better hardware where I can use the (my favorite) FVDW firmware, and where Plex will run more smoothly on it?

TIA
JDZ01

[fvdw]

Probably your hard disk is dead, red-blue means that the disk is not recognized anymore. Clicking sounds means probably that the heads can not read data. So al signs of a broken disk. If it is broken then the data is lost.

To install the firmware on a new disk you can use the fvdw-sl console. See download section of the forum.

Ps the console can also be used to load a standalone kernel. That kernel runs from RAM so it can be loaded even if there is a disk problem. This kernel has a build in telnet server and by using that you can investigate the old harddisk to see if it is still readable

[JDZ01]

hummm, this procedure I followed long time ago, and than it worked.
But now I do not come very far.

Running FVDW-Console
Suggested IP Adress for NAS: 192.168.178.252
Action -> Standalone Kernel
Choose UIMAGE for NWSP2: UIMAGE-3142-NWSP2CL-KIRKWOOD-24-standalone
Switch on NAS

Clunc says: 'waiting for u-boot...'
And that's where te story ends...

I suppose I am doing something wrong. But what?
TIA
JDZ01

[Jocko]

Hi JZD01,

When telnet connection fails,
1/ check the firewall on your laptop (you can try again after disabling it)

2/ do not use wireless connection

3/router; laptop and NAS must be on the same subnet

[JDZ01]

Thanks - Wifi was the problem.

Now you are online...;) what should I take to install my new 2TB drive? The install-option or the writetodisk option???

[Jocko]

Currently it is the new disk or former disk in your box?
- Use 'load standalone kernel' action is useful only if you want to examine the old disk
- Use 'Install fvdw-sl firmware' action when the new disk is in your Lacie box.

For this last action, do not worry about your nwsp2 version (Classic or Lite) as you have a 2TB disk. Indeed a gpt partitions table is useless in this case. So claim you have a classic version (and a ms-dos partitions table will be used as classic supports only this table type)