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

1. Customer reports a power spike during the night shutting down many systems
2. 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

1. UN-Brick the Seagate ST3500620AS hard drives (one will do)
2. Prepare an new blank hard drive with the latest Ubuntu installation (Raid procedure will only work when Ubuntu is installed on a hard drive)
3. 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"
4. Restart the computer with one of the Raid Drives installed
5. Go to <Places><Computer>, Right click on the Raid disk icon, Start Multi-disk Drive then Start drive in degraded mode.
   
6. You then have to take ownership of the LaCie files and directories
   
7. 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
     
8. Wait a few seconds...Data is recovered, you now can copy the files to another drive.