Is my Network Attached Storage a sinking ship? It sure has proven not to be reliable. About a year ago I bought a Linksys NSLU2 that turns my Maxtor OneTouch 250gb external harddrive into a NAS (network attachted storage). Besides the downsides (it is only USB 1.1 and you have to format the disk since the Linksys uses Ext/3), it now proved a major source for data loss! From time to time it seemed that files I had copied to the disc weeks before had gone or just didn’t exist there anymore. I kind of ignored the problem for a while thinking I was just forgetful. But yesterday disaster struck twice. I have had about all my iLounge music migrated to the disc, but it just was GONE! And what’s worse: my complete software library (or softbin) is gone too! Off course I ran the built-in disc check but that took for ages, so I hooked the disc up through firewire to my fresh install of Ubuntu 5.10. It did find somere errors when I ran fsck, but that didn’t help either. Now the weird thing is: the disc is 250gb but with the files left on it (software and music gone) it still reported just under 14gb free space. Now that can’t be correct! So I just started to copy everything that is left on the disc to another disc (a Lacie 250gb USB 2.0 disc) and I hope see if I can recover anything later tonight. Since I did not delete anything, it must still be there (somewhere)… I can do without the software, but I had over 150gb of Lounge music on it! I’m going to run some recover software later and pray I can recover most of my stuff. Keep your fingers crossed!
To be continued…