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Title: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
Post by: markus_g on May 15, 2008, 05:57:34 PM

Hello,

I have been following this forum for a while as I am looking at getting a DNS-323 to run in raid 1 mode.

My question is if the DNS-323 ever fails can I pull off the data by putting one of the hard drives into a PC or will the hard drive only work with a replacement DNS-323.

I do plan to continue to do backups onto DVD but just asking as it would be quicker to recover from the harddrive than the backups.

Regards,

Markus.

Title: Re: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
Post by: fordem on May 15, 2008, 08:25:22 PM

The DNS-323 uses a linux ext2 file system - you can connect the drive to a PC running linux, or even Microsoft Windows, if you install the ext2ifs installable file system - which you can download here. (http://www.fs-driver.org/)

Title: Re: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
Post by: markus_g on May 16, 2008, 02:32:53 AM

Quote from: fordem on May 15, 2008, 08:25:22 PM

The DNS-323 uses a linux ext2 file system - you can connect the drive to a PC running linux, or even Microsoft Windows, if you install the ext2ifs installable file system - which you can download here. (http://www.fs-driver.org/)

Thanks for the info.

Regards,

Markus.

Title: Re: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
Post by: bspvette86 on May 16, 2008, 04:56:45 AM

Fordem,
THANKS!

Regards,
K

Title: Re: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
Post by: mig on May 16, 2008, 07:13:16 AM

One way to get a temporary Linux machine, is to use a "Linux Live CD" such as Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org)
This boot CD will run Linux, off the CD - leaving the original OS hard drive untouched.