Please share! Anything offered might be a piece of the puzzle.

I think this is part of the problem. The owner removed the original 1 TB disks and threw in some 256 GB disks. Because of possible vendor partitioning presumptions, I have been wondering whether the OS firmware will even work with anything less than 1 TB disks.

Yes, I am aware of that, although there are similarities in the overall design of the OS.

This is as far as I have gotten -- presuming that I actually have the correct image and the installer will support the smaller drives.

Thanks much for your time and help!

The IX4-200D does NOT support disks below 500Gb.

Just a thought, I've got a ix2-200, not D, that has a Marvell chip. It has pins for a serial port on the board if you have a ftdi 3.3v USB cable. Might give you better access to the boot process/loader. I have no idea whether your model has that feature.

Edit: indeed it does have serial UART access, see for example http://forum.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=15289

When you play with this nas, use a static arp entry if you have the mac address so that it can't fool you with any sort of ip issue.

Thanks. Where did you find that information? I am guessing the 300D has a similar restriction.

I remember reading the 300D supports various RAID configs. I'll see if I can find two matching 1 TB drives. Possibly then the USB will bootstrap correctly with RAID 1.

Sorry for the necropost but....

Support ended for these a couple of months ago, not that there was ever any from dinlovo in the first place. If I ever see a CV with Lenovo on it, they can come for an interview and watch me throw it in the bin. Below are links to my files and what I managed to learn/achieve FWIW. Unbricked mine almost a year ago after it sat 4 years in the loft. Thought I'd have one last go before binning it. One of thousands bricked from a dodgy firmware update i imagine. They never sorted it even though it was under warranty. Just kept stalling until I eventually gave up on them. Got so angry I was going to take the 30 minute drive up to Hook and throw it though the windscreen of the most expensive looking car in the car park with a note saying "You can have it back!". I've set mine up to compile arm code as cross compiling is such a ball-ache. I hope everyone finally gets to fix them now and get some use and enjoyment. I know it's just a raspberry pi B in a posh box, but I love it. No, it won't run Collabora because of the ram but it's probably faster than a basic VPS from crazydomains. Had syncthing running well on it back in the day after eventually compiling go on it.

https://github.com/5p0ng3b0b/ix4-300d (read help.txt)
https://mega.nz/#F!b9N2XQzZ!hdhSgCK0VQlPbYpyOXTmYA (usb recovery firmware)

Good luck!

Web search seem to indicate that some image from Lenovo can be used to recover the OS.
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