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LaCie 2big Network 2 Specs & Partition Setup

 LaCie 2big Network 2, Raid 1
 2-Seagate ST3500620AS Firmware: LC11
 Hard Drive PCB: 100466725
 LaCie hard drive Partition info:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 125 1004031 5 Extended
/dev/sdb2 126 60801 487379970 83 Linux
/dev/sdb5 1 15 128457 82 Linux swap/Solaris
/dev/sdb6 17 17 8001 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 18 18 8001 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 19 40 176683+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb9 41 124 674698+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb10 125 125 8001 83 Linux

Crashed LaCie 2big Network 2 Server: Failure Analysis

 Customer reports a power spike during the night shutting down many systems
 LaCie 2big Network 2 would no longer mount in the morning
 Hard Drive Failure: Bricking of both Seagate ST3500620AS hard drives.
 Mounting the hard drives directly to a computer failed, the drives were not recognized in the
bios.
 Client decided to quit and send us the LaCie Server for Data Recovery

LaCie Raid Data Recovery: procedures

 UN-Brick the Seagate ST3500620AS hard drives (one will do)
 Prepare an new blank hard drive with the latest Ubuntu installation (Raid procedure will only work
when Ubuntu is installed on a hard drive)
 Boot the new hard disk and install mdadm (Raid Driver)
 Hook up the network
 from a terminal install the Raid Application
 "sudo aptitude update"
 "sudo aptitude install mdadm"
 Restart the computer with one of the Raid Drives installed
 Go to <Places><Computer>, Right click on the Raid disk icon, Start Multi-disk Drive then Start drive
in degraded mode.

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 You then have to take ownership of the LaCie files and directories
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 Open a Terminal copy the "share" path name and paste it to the chown command (must be executed
under ROOT):
 lacie@lacie-desktop:~$ sudo bash
 [sudo] password for lacie: ********
 root@lacie-desktop:~# chown -hR lacie /media/6591de94-5983-4941-a873-
68538771e108/share
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 Wait a few seconds...Data is recovered, you now can copy the files to another drive.

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