First question to ask is, is this hardware raid or linux software raid? --Dan On 3/26/06, Nathan England wrote: > > The problem with raid 0, while giving expanded filesystems over many disks is > there is no fault tolerance, so it is possible that when one of those drives > took a dump, you lost ALL of that data. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure > that is how it works. > Does the drive power up at all? Or is it completely dead? > What is the file system on it? Can you boot with a knoppix disc and try to let > it e2fsck or reiserfsck that filesystem and see if it fixes it? > > On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:13, Technomage wrote: > > I need the help of a raid "expert" > > > > I have a raid 0 problem. seems that when a machine went belly up on me, it > > damages part of a raid 0 virtual fs in such a way that I can no longer > > mount the 2nd 9and smaller) half of the filesystem. > > > > the kernel panics on boot and I get all kinds of "bad magic" errors when > > attempting to do so. > > > > I have more than enough HD space to copy the images, but I need to get the > > data off this "raid 0 fs" as soon as possible. > > > > can anyone help? > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Payson Computer Services > PO Box 2551 > Payson, Arizona 85547 > (928) 595 - 1449 > > http://www.paysonlinux.org/ > nathan@paysonlinux.org > > Business Consulting Services, > Advanced Network and Server Design, > Security Solutions, > Process Management and Efficiency Consultations > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob." - GK Chesterton --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss