WD MyBook II questions

[Jerry Feldman]

On 07/21/2009 05:23 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> AFAIK both drives are good. They both mount properly as a RAID1 array
>> on Linux. I think I may have done something to the box...
>
> The embedded OS is stored on the RAID data drives - no? (Not a design
> I'm particularly fond of.) So there are any number of things that
> might have happened to the drives that would prevent the OS from bootin=
g.
>
> Didn't Federico mention that there were sites with "debrcking"
> instructions? (Probably a disk image you can overwrite your drives with=
=2E)
>
> (Too late now, as you've already shipped off the drive, but something
> to consider if there is a next time.)
>
>
Yes, I'll check out the debricking sites. The drives have 4 partitions
all RAID. One of those is swap. For the life of me I can't think of why
one would allocate a raid swap.

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