Lacie 2big Network failure

Hello all,

My Lacie 2big Network has just failed. I had it configured to 'safe'.

At first, the light on the front started flashing red/blue. While the lights on the back flashed red/blue on one drive, and held a healthy solid blue on the other.

I thought I could pull out the healthy drive and mount it into my Mac Intel Xeon in order to recover the data. But the drive was unreadable in the mac.

After returning the drive back to the Lacie 2Big Network housing, the drive will not power up at all. The only indication of any power that I get is when I plug it in, the green light at the ethernet jack flashes once and fades out within a second.

At this point I am considering buying a new Lacie 2Big and placing the old drives into it. But that seems a little risky.

Any ideas would be GREATLy appreciated.

Thanks,
Evan

The first step is to find out the partition format. Use Gparted LiveCD to find the partition format, usually a flavor of Linux, with the hard drive hooked up to a computer.
Then try SystemRescueCD to recover the data and transfer to another drive.

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

If you are encountering further problems, please tell us.

Yes, I believe so.

I will try that first step you mentioned in the last comment and get back to you.

Thank you!
Evan

Install the ext3 drivers for your Mac. You may be able to see the files on the drive.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/arch [...] 61597.html

Download a Linux LiveCD, like Ubuntu and without installing try to recover the data.

After you download it, run GParted and find the partition type.

Burn GParted to a CD and boot from the CD.
Let's see what comes up. Do not make any changes in Gparted.
Just view the partition format of the drives.

We're missing the partition type, like ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, etc.
If you could install Linux on a drive or partition, you could probably recover the data.
Yellow Dog Linux works on a lot of Mac systems.

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/

Hi Evongugg-

I was unable to run yellowdog.

I did, however just discover that the drive in question is using the Ext2 file system. I have poste two images that show the info in "system profiler".

http://www.evanparsons.com/lacie_t [...] re%203.jpg

http://www.evanparsons.com/lacie_t [...] re%204.jpg

Does that get us anywhere?

Thank you once again,
Evan

I found out my buddy has the exact same Lacie 2big Network. I put my drives in his enclosure and was able to get it all working. It seems that the new enclosure even re-built the drive that had the red light flashing as well.

So I got all my data back, and will be building a new server out of a MAC, with two 2gb internal drives raided together.

THANKS for all the help Evongugg!!!

Evan