[cctalk] Re: Cleanup time again

On 3/26/24 20:47, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote: I did a recovery on a ReadyNAS device created on the original Netgear devices which used the mini sparc linux.  unfortunately the raid array software they used there had 4k setup, and at the time the Linux on i86 was all 512 byte block sized. though the original reason i favored ReadyNAS was because they used Linux instead of some proprietary raid chip which might or might not be supported, the 4k vs 512 byte took some doing. it didn't "just work" at all. And Netgear discontinued the Sparc version in favor of x86 and the problem subsequently went away. The problem was by the way that the recovery scan stalled on real small physical defect block areas.  I had to go in and manually map out the files with the errors, which were luckily not ones I required as had other copies, but Netgear didn't fix the problem on the original boxes. They could recover if you could replace an entire disk, but when there was a small defect, nope. thanks Jim BTW the recovery at the time required building a driver I found and adding it to the kernel.  Not a fun or quick task.