On 05/06/2014 06:36 PM, T L wrote: > > Pulling the drives & sticking them in a PC might let you talk to the > drive(s). I think that it is likely that the box is using the mdraid > software raid system, which nearly any distribution will support. > > Good luck. > > Thomas > > I had tried the freezer trick ( I learned that here lol) with no luck. I also tried hooking the bad drive to another PC. It still played dead I had emailed the tech support at shuttle just before posting to this list and much to my surprise they actually emailed me a solution to the problem. I just had to do a firmware update in such a way as to bypass the web interface and it's all good here now:) Thanks for your ideas though, i was starting to pull my hair out over this:) Rob