Dave,

The advice is sound. I know it. However, I'm so close. I have no intention of taking serious risks with the array and if nobody can offer a simple fix, I'm out of here.

It was all the NAS-Central posts that helped me hack into it in the first place (acp_commander.jar)

Thanks for the post showing that it is very probably Debian - the unit is a Terastation III.

After push-ing the correct path for DBI.pm, the simple DBI module script is pretty damning:

`can't locate object method "connect" via package "DBI" (perhaps you forgot to load "DBI")`

Not me mate, that would be BuffaloTech