Nick Marques
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Hello all,
I am an AV integrator (and computer geek) and sold a Niveus Media Center and Storage Server to a client around 5 years ago or so. We recently inherited it back and I wish to recommission the storage server for our shop.
If you aren't familiar with Niveus, they made high end HTPCs for a brief time. They no longer make PCs, and I'm not even sure if they still exist. They surely don't support products anymore.
This unit has a VIA EPIA-SN Motherboard and four 1TB HDDs. I hooked the HDDs up to my laptop via SATA and saw that every drive has a Reallocated Sector Count of 100 or more. Based on my experience with drives, this is considered bad.
The unit has a login and I do not have this info, and I don't think the customer does either. I believe Niveus pre-configured all of this.
It runs Ubuntu 7.10 and the Grub boot screen identifier says kernel 2.6.24epia-sn-r1.
I have tried a couple Ubuntu walkthroughs on editing the boot commands to recover the root password, but I can't seem to get it to drop me into a bash prompt.
I know this isn't all FreeNAS related (unless it so happens to be what Niveus was deploying), but I am wondering if I can just scrap this Linux build, install FreeNAS and be back up and running.
Thoughts? Has anyone here done a NAS with this motherboard? Seems to me like maybe trying to extract the kernel from these drives might be a good idea.
I am an AV integrator (and computer geek) and sold a Niveus Media Center and Storage Server to a client around 5 years ago or so. We recently inherited it back and I wish to recommission the storage server for our shop.
If you aren't familiar with Niveus, they made high end HTPCs for a brief time. They no longer make PCs, and I'm not even sure if they still exist. They surely don't support products anymore.
This unit has a VIA EPIA-SN Motherboard and four 1TB HDDs. I hooked the HDDs up to my laptop via SATA and saw that every drive has a Reallocated Sector Count of 100 or more. Based on my experience with drives, this is considered bad.
The unit has a login and I do not have this info, and I don't think the customer does either. I believe Niveus pre-configured all of this.
It runs Ubuntu 7.10 and the Grub boot screen identifier says kernel 2.6.24epia-sn-r1.
I have tried a couple Ubuntu walkthroughs on editing the boot commands to recover the root password, but I can't seem to get it to drop me into a bash prompt.
I know this isn't all FreeNAS related (unless it so happens to be what Niveus was deploying), but I am wondering if I can just scrap this Linux build, install FreeNAS and be back up and running.
Thoughts? Has anyone here done a NAS with this motherboard? Seems to me like maybe trying to extract the kernel from these drives might be a good idea.
