NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have upgraded my NAS from NASlite 1 FTP to NASlite 2 HDD. All has gone fairly smoothly except that I can't see how to access the previous hard disc. It appears on the system, identified correctly, now numbered as Disk-0 (instead of Disk-1). However, the options in the Disk-0 configuration menu are all starred except for 4 (SMART disk self test) and 8, (format). I don't want to lose the data on the disk, so suggestions on what I should do would be appreciated.

as a PS, in the installation manual it says this
"NASLite v1.x configuration settings are not
compatible with NASLite-2 configuration
settings. NASLite-2 servers have to be
configured manually during initial setup."
Is this something different to following the installation instructions?

K

I guess the first question to ask here is what drive was HDD installed on? Installing NASlite-2 HDD on a hard drive will wipe it clean, partition it accordingly and then install the OS. If Disk-0 is what used to be your NASLite-FTP storage drive, then I'm afraid you may have replaced your old storage partition with a fresh install of HDD.

Thanks. Fortunately I had already worked that one out. The installation is on a new CF flash drive. This was not on the system before, and is attached as a slave on the same IDE cable as the 6Gb fujitsi hard disk I am trying to setup, not sure if this makes any difference. The other ide cable has the cd-rom I installed from. I can be fairly certain that the installation was to the CF disk, because the fujitsi wasn't attached while I installed NL2-hdd - but perhaps that could cause a problem in itself? Is there a simple way to check where the installation is?

Presumably I could do this the long way round, remove the drive, load the data somewhere else on my system and then copy it back, but I would like to avoid this both in terms of the principle, and the time involved....
K

My CF adapter didn't play nice if I attached a slave on the same IDE channel

so try this
remove the cd-rom drive (installation is finished, you won't be needing it anymore)
connect the cf-adapter to ide-1
connect your hd to ide-2
set them both as master
get in the bios to boot from primary master

I think that should do it

Thanks for that advice. However, I have since removed the drive and plugged it into another machine, and can confirm that it has been formatted ready for a Naslite Installation, even though there does not appear to be any files on it. This may well be because I was not wholly accurate in saying that only the CF was attached. In truth both it and the Fuji were set to master, and the BIOS could only see the cf card. Rather foolishly, I carried on with the installation before correcting that. Perhaps Naslite could see both. When I later set the CF card to slave, Naslite reported both, but reports correctly that the boot configuration is on the Disk-1 (CF flash card).

I have looked at recovering some of my files using PhotoRec, but while it has been successful for a number, it doesn't give meaningful file names and my mp3 files, for example, are chopped into bits of varying length. Fortunately I used the NAS mainly for backup, but there are a few files on it I accessed from different machines round my network. The few minutes I "saved" by not sorting the drive configuration out will now cost me in delving round my hard disk for bits of recoverable files. Live and learn.....
K

Oh my,

that's my worst nightmare
very sorry to hear that

Thankfully you didn't loose too much data
but every file is one to many

Good luck with the new server

Oh boy! Sorry to hear that man. But think on the bright side. You'd never do that again

I've done my share of goofups like that.