i tried a lot other things i found on the net, i downloaded acronis true image tib-files and restored them, i played with the backuped images i did before, but nothing worked. because i didnt find anything more about the ix4, i tried to read a little bit about the ix2, because there are much more information about that device than about the ix4. so at the end i used this tutorial for the ix2 and adapted it for the ix4:
http://iomega.nas-central.org/wiki/Cate ... 0-usb-init
and this was the only solution which worked. right now the ix4-200d is working again and i am happy
i unplugged all internal drives from my pc (i dont wanted to brick them, too), plugged in all four sata drives and started the pc from a knoppix linux 6.7 cd (or download the iso and use
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ to make a bootable usb thumb drive from the iso-file), open a terminal window, delete the partition table of all four hard disks with:
knoppix@0[knoppix]: su
root@0[knoppix]: fdisk -l
-l like
list. now you see all your drives listed and look if there is your usb thumb drive. don't delete the partition table of your usb thumb drive
root@0[knoppix]: fdisk /dev/sda
root@0[knoppix]: o
root@0[knoppix]: w
root@0[knoppix]: fdisk /dev/sdb
root@0[knoppix]: o
root@0[knoppix]: w
root@0[knoppix]: fdisk /dev/sdc
root@0[knoppix]: o
root@0[knoppix]: w
root@0[knoppix]: fdisk /dev/sdd
root@0[knoppix]: o
root@0[knoppix]: w
shutdown the pc and put the disks back into the ix4. format a usb thumb drive with fat32 and create a folders on the usb thumb drive:
X:\emctools\ix4-200d_images
download the file emctools.7z from herer
http://downloads.iomega.nas-central.org ... 0ix4-200d/ (thx@Mijzelf), extract it and place it on a USB thumb drive so that it looks like that:
X:\emctools\ix4-200d_images\ix4-boot.tgz
switch off the NAS, plug in the usb thumb drive, press and hold the reset button and wait until the usb thumb drive starts to blink after 30 to 60 seconds (i hope your usb drive has an LED). now when it's blinking (reading) you can release the reset-button, wait and pray. i needed several times to get it working. maybe try another thumb drive or try to create the usb thumb drive files on your own. here is my adapted script from the named tutorial which i used:
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ifw=/media/sdc1/x4-200d-ix4-200d-2.1.38.22294.tgz # the original firmware
ofw=${ifw%.tgz}-decrypted.tar.gz
ix4=${ifw%.tgz}-files
usb=/media/sdc1 # your fat32 formated usb thumb drive
mkdir -p $ix4/images
mkdir -p $ix4/update
mkdir -p $ix4/apps
openssl enc -d -aes-128-cbc -in $ifw -k "EMCNTGSOHO" -out $ofw
tar xzvf $ofw -C $ix4/update/
imgs=$(find $ix4/update/)
for img in ${imgs} ; do
if [ -f $img.md5 ] ; then
mv $img $ix4/images/
mv $img.md5 $ix4/images/
fi
done
mount -o loop,ro $ix4/images/apps $ix4/apps
cp -p $ix4/apps/usr/local/cfg/config.gz $ix4/images/
umount $ix4/apps
gunzip $ix4/images/config.gz
img=$ix4/images/config
md5=$(md5sum $img)
md5=${md5% *}
md5=${md5% }
echo "$md5" > $img.md5
cd $ix4/images/
tar czvf ../ix4-boot.tgz *
mkdir -p $usb/emctools/ix4-200d_images/
cp $ix4/ix4-boot.tgz $usb/emctools/ix4-200d_images/
good luck!
