Re: Western Digital My Book World Edition II NAS device- crashed?

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Download a copy of Knoppix. It is a bootable copy of Linux. You would
have to have your hard drive(s) in a PC that had a CD drive in it. It's
free and might be worth a shot to see if it can read the drives.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bob Cagle
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 9:53 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Western Digital My Book World Edition II NAS
device- crashed?

Update:  I did find another MBWE II just like the one I have.  Attempted
to switch the drives this weekend, but still did not work.  Pretty much
confirms that one of the drives has failed.

This device comes preconfigured to span the two drives into one volume
by default.  It does have a way to setup RAID, but I just never got
around to it; didn't expect it to fail so soon.  That won't happen
again.

Unfortunately the default drive format is a Linux flavor, according to
the manual.  It never specifies what flavor.  I'm not a Linux guy, so I
don't have a clue where to go from here.  

Sounds like I'll be sending it to a data recovery service...

And just some more FYI - the performance of this particular NAS device
is abysmal.  Extremely low read and write speeds.  I would not recommend
anyone purchase this.  Once I get my data off, I'm just going to take
the one good drive and put it in my desktop and trash the rest.

Thanks
Bob