Blue LED Blinking and no network access to 2Big Network

[PaaNooS]

1. Is there any way to repair my NAS to return to normal mode without losing data ?

[PaaNooS]

If we suppose that NOT interesting about data, can somehow reset the NAS and put original firmware from the beginning ?

I don't want to I throw ιτ in the trash

[Jocko]

Lacie firmware is not our firmware.

What we can say your data partition seems to be clean as you succeeded to assemble the raid and the fs on the logical volume (LVM) is not corrupted as you can mount it. There is also no hardware issue on the sata port (your disks are detected).

Now lacie uses other raid partitions (partition with type FD in gdisk output) and it may have also some issues on this side so your should try to assemble and mount them to detect if they are corrupted

[PaaNooS]

Now lacie uses other raid partitions (partition with type FD in gdisk output) and it may have also some issues on this side so your should try to assemble and mount them to detect if they are corrupted

And how can I do that ?

[PaaNooS]

So how can I resurrect this NAS ?

If I install fvdw-sl firmware what the differences vs original firmware ?

[fvdw]

I have to discuss with Jocko but we might be able to install fvdw-sl firmware on your nas while keeping your data. For that we will delete partitions 1 to 7 but keep partition 8 as fvdw-sl uses partition 8 for data as well. The Kacie firmware will be lost. But as it is corrupt already..m
Are you open for such a trial?

[PaaNooS]

I have to discuss with Jocko but we might be able to install fvdw-sl firmware on your nas while keeping your data. For that we will delete partitions 1 to 7 but keep partition 8 as fvdw-sl uses partition 8 for data as well. The Kacie firmware will be lost. But as it is corrupt already..m
Are you open for such a trial?

I've decided.
I'm NOT interesting for any data.
You can drive me to delete/format/destroy any partition so to build NAS from scratch.
My last question is how 'user-friendly' will be the new environment after installing fvdw-sl firmware

[fvdw]

There is a link on the forum that gives you an idea about features of the fvdw-sl firmware. http://plugout.net/fvdw-sl/home.php
It is based on an previous version of the firmware, 17.0. Currently we are on 18.2. But it gives you an impression what you may expect

[PaaNooS]

OK we'll continue to installation but not today because I'm far away from NAS now

If you like you can post first steps to begin tomorrow morning

For now I have to thank you for the whole support

[fvdw]

To install fvdw-sl you can use fvdw-sl console and choose option install firmware anf follow the instructions in the main window or in the help files of the console (more detail).

Note: all data and lacie software on the disk will be lost.

However installing fvdw-sl firmware it is in your case necessary to delete the partition tables on both disks. This because otherwise if on one the disk lacie firmware is present the bootloader will try to load it.
To remove the partition tables. Load the standalone kernel and login with telnet client.
In telnet client give command.

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gdisk /dev/sda

gdisk will start and when having disk prompt give command

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d

It will ask which partiton to delete, enter number 1
Repeat this until nr 8
When ready give command

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p

This will list new partition table all entries should be gone now, if that is the case give command

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w

to write the empty partition table to disk. It will ask if you agree to write the new table answer Y
When gdisk has quit you can check if writing of the empty tabel succeeded by giving command

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gdisk -l /dev/sda

Do the same for /dev/sdb

When finished , shutdown the nas

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poweroff -f

Next, when looking from the back remove the disk in most righthand side slot, leave the one in most lefthand slot in place.

Note I assume you have the fvdw-sl console installed with firmware 18-1.

Now load again the standalone kernel and login with telnet client.
Give command

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fvdw-sl-programs

and choose option install firmware.

After finishing install you need to install a patch to be able to upgrade to 18-2
see https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3129#p30716and you need to enter your plugout.net credentials in the system mgt ->setup tab firmware interface to be able to download from plugout server.

When the system runs nice on fvdw-sl shut it down and insert the second disk.
Boot again the nas and add the disk in the disk setup menu of the web interface

The username of the webinterface is : admin-nas default password: admin (you can change that)

Success
For 18-2 there is patch to solve some bugs found after releasing that version
see here http://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3149#p36493