raid 0 problems

[Alan Dayley]

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Technomage wrote:
> since I *know* this can be done, there has to be a way for someone in my 
> position to be able to do this without expending THOUSANDS of DOLLARS (in 
> money I don't even have) to do this.

One trick I have been successful doing is to find a working hard drive
of the same model.  Then, assuming the platters and motors are good, you
can replace the logic board on one drive with the logic board on the
good drive.  Do this very carefully or you will end up with two dead
drives!  But, if the logic board "contains" the problem, this can get
the drive up and running again.  The description of the actual drive
failure seems to point to a logic board problem so this may work for you.

RAID 0 with two drives means half the data is on one and half on the
other.  The RAID logic will put, for example, 4 blocks on one and then 4
blocks on the other and so on.  That means every 4th (or whatever number
it was using) block is on the dead drive.  That is hard to recover from
because the data doesn't make sense with only one of the drives.  There
are other issues and possible complications but you probably are
studying up on all of that.

This is why it costs so much to recover.  It's not easy and take
experience to do efficiently.  I hope you can get the dead drive up
since that would be the easiest way to recover.

Good Luck!

Alan
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