i authenticated and now can see the file system again. Low and behold, the old file is accepted and im prompted with a BitLocker encryption challenge (my ISCSI was BitLocker encrypted). went back and turned on iSCSI service on NAS and proceeded to try and configure my ISCI initiator on my Windows computer to point to NAS. then i re-stopped the ISCSI service, renamed the file (in case what im trying to do doesnt work) and proceeded to upload my old ISCI file back to the same place as the new fileĪfter this is done, i now have a fake ISCSI file and the real ISCSI file i need. after this was done, i went and created a ‘fake’ ISCI drive, named it the same name as the previous one, fired up WinSCP and went back to /mnt/pools/A/A0/iSCSI found the new ISCSI there. youll end up with an empty RAID 1 (mirror) NAS. to my suprise it came back up.Īgain i went to drive management and proceeded to change from protection none to protection mirror (RAID 1) – again, i have to confirm all data will be erased. i powered on NAS expecting to possibly see a WLoD (White Light of Death) which is what happens when neither drive has the boot files/partition. then i powered off the NAS and proceeded to remove the existing 2tb drive to replace with a new 1tb drive (so both drives will be new and 1tb in size each). What i did after i had a copied the files was stop the SCSI service.įrom then i broke the RAID array – this told me it needs to delete existing data to change drive configuration which is what i expected (on the below picture you can sort of see the different drive sizes behind the message box)Įventually this completes and i have no data on a non RAID drive. However i was determined to do this so what i did was SSH into the NAS using WinSCP and copied the ISCSI files to my computer (just in case). i tried to rebuild the array but of course the smaller drive is smaller and it was not possible. On bay 1 i inserted a new 1tb SATA drive and left the existing 2tb SATA drive in there.
So after all my iscsi data was copied over to my machine, i decided to plug the drive back in and do an offline scan…Įventually that failed, so there is no repairing the drive.
This is a part 2 of my last post “ Downgrading iOmega ix2-200 drives challenges” and resumes from that
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