Hi Craig,
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 04:13:22PM -0500, craig guest wrote: > Sorry if I'm seen as hijacking this thread but haven't see this much > activity on an ss4000e in a long time. Indeed, but I don't see how this prevent the creation of a new thread :-) > Mine has been on a shelf for a long time. I performed an fis init -f > on it and have lost all my partitions except for > Redboot > Redboot config > fis directory cat /proc/mtd under Debian seems to give the partitions list and their size : lothar:~# cat /proc/mtd dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 00040000 00020000 "RedBoot" mtd1: 00020000 00020000 "log" mtd2: 00040000 00020000 "rammode" mtd3: 00020000 00020000 "naskey" mtd4: 00200000 00020000 "zImage" mtd5: 00400000 00020000 "ramdisk.gz" mtd6: 01880000 00020000 "vendor" mtd7: 00080000 00020000 "wmdata" mtd8: 00001000 00020000 "RedBoot config" mtd9: 00020000 00020000 "FIS directory" But I don't know how to exploit theses figures to write the data in place... > I have a backup copy of all the partitions but am unsure as to how > to restore them. They are named block1 block2 .... Someone with a SS4000E can also make them available for you, I don't see that as a problem... > I have been able to load debian to it and perform an install but it > fails at saving to flash I am assuming this is because the > partitions are missing to flash to. Can somebody please help me > either restore the partitions or restore back to factory so I can > try again. I would really appreciate some help Do you (or someone else) still have the CD-Rom which comes with the SS4000E ? (I'm afraid mine has been thrown away.) IIRC, some software on this CD claimed to be able to restore the nas to factory settings. Could you possibly try it ? Hih, -- JFS.
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