Iomega Ix2-200 Tips Disks not ready

Recently, I have been having problems with the Iomega Ix2-200 devices. Frequently, we are seeing Disks not ready messages on some device screens, and the file shares are dropping.

Here is a solution that I was able to find with the help of a tier 3 engineer at Iomega. It was like pulling teeth to get this info, so I figure it should be shared immediately.

As always, use this at your own risk... This will fix the file system but data-loss may occur.

Console into the nas using SSH.

Username: root
Password: is "soho" immediately followed by the administrator password set on the nas

type:

"umount /dev/mapper/md1_vg-md1vol1"

This will unmount the disk so it can be repaired


"xfs_repair -L /dev/mapper/md1_vg-md1vol1"

This will repair the file system


"Reboot"

This will reboot the nas, which will remount the shares after complete


Also, the cause of this problem is closely related to out of date disk firmware. See and perform the following

Iomega Answer Id: 24661 shows how to update disk firmware to the stable CC37 or CC38 version.

http://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24661