On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:36, Dan Lund wrote: not hardware. this was a raid-0 software installation. > 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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