The original SNAP NAS devices were developed by SNAP Appliance. The operating system that was used was a flavor of BSD in concert with the file system UFS. Although the file system looks very similar to the original UFS there were some subtle changes made. View It Now takes those changes into consideration when searching […]
Analyzing RAID parity
Last time I discussed how to find the RAID data offset for a SNAP OS 4.x RAID handler. To put it briefly it was just a simple matter of finding Cylinder Group zero on the first drive in the array and back tracking 48 sectors. Once the RAID data offset is established we can plug […]
Finding SNAP OS 4.x RAID Data Offset
If you are in this business long enough you will see everything, or will you? Two weeks ago I received a SNAP RAID OS 4.x for recovery. I have done a lot of these and I am pretty familiar with the data offsets, how the drives are setup, and where to begin the virtual RAID […]