Greetings,
My NEC vendor came out to troubleshoot our voicemail, which was not responding. He was not able to get the system to boot, and although this has not been verified, he thinks the model we have may not be supported and our only option is replacement.
As the unit is only three years old, I found this disconcerting and decided to investigate the porblem myself. The unit is a hard-drive based model (Hitachi TravelStar 20G). When I pulled the drive and mounted it on my linux system, I found the filesystem to be a FAT-16 2 gig MS-DOS 6 formatted partition. I was able to successfully pull all the data except for the file AVENT.AVD, found in the VMAIL directory off of root. I found a post on this forum that hinted the file is a system password file and may be flat text.
In theory, if I can replace this file with a default file I may be able to reconstruct the filesystem on another laptop drive and restore. Does anyone have this file available?
In addition, it appears that to convert the card to a flash-based system it would require a stick of what appears to be laptop memory (don't know the size or speed required) and a CF card formatted the same way. Does anyone have any details on performing such a conversion.
Thanks,
Michael Chan
My NEC vendor came out to troubleshoot our voicemail, which was not responding. He was not able to get the system to boot, and although this has not been verified, he thinks the model we have may not be supported and our only option is replacement.
As the unit is only three years old, I found this disconcerting and decided to investigate the porblem myself. The unit is a hard-drive based model (Hitachi TravelStar 20G). When I pulled the drive and mounted it on my linux system, I found the filesystem to be a FAT-16 2 gig MS-DOS 6 formatted partition. I was able to successfully pull all the data except for the file AVENT.AVD, found in the VMAIL directory off of root. I found a post on this forum that hinted the file is a system password file and may be flat text.
In theory, if I can replace this file with a default file I may be able to reconstruct the filesystem on another laptop drive and restore. Does anyone have this file available?
In addition, it appears that to convert the card to a flash-based system it would require a stick of what appears to be laptop memory (don't know the size or speed required) and a CF card formatted the same way. Does anyone have any details on performing such a conversion.
Thanks,
Michael Chan
