I think he used a tool that is advocated by Buffalo, that was referenced in a former link and solved it. On 11/20/09, Technomage wrote: > um. recovering data on a raid 5?? > > is the array still intact or is it broken. if the latter, its will be > orders of magnitude more difficult > (but still doable). > > here's a clip from www.diydatarecovery.nl: > ************************************************** > *Data recovery from a broken array* > > Due to the parity information a RAID 5 array can survive one single disk > failing, RAID 5 is 'fault tolerant'. The falling disk can be replaced > (hot swapped) and the data on the disk is rebuild using the parity > information. However due to circumstances this may fail. It can also > happen that the RAID adapter itself fails and very often it is not > possible to migrate an existing array to another RAID adapter. As a > result you have a bunch of disks, all containing bits of your data but > you can not access that data. This is where you will need true RAID > capable data recovery software. > > You will need software that can treat the separate disks as one single > array. The software should enable the user to add disks that were part > of the array and to configure RAID parameters such as stripe size. > However many will not be knowledgeable enough to provide the parameter > sets thus ideally the software should be able to detect RAID parameters > such as stripe size and rotation (for example, in above illustration you > see forward rotation, inverted rotation is also possible). > > As soon as the software has virtually recreated the array data recovery > proceeds normally; the disk is being scanned for file system structures > and a virtual file system is created from which data can be recovered. > DIY DataRecovery iRecover > follows this procedure. Alternatively the reconstructed array is copied > entirely to another disk or raw image file. The destination disk can > then be analysed with any data recovery software, an image can be > analyzed with any software that is capable of processing a raw image > file. The latter is the method used by RAID Reconstructor from Runtime > Software (www.runtime.org ) > *************************************************** > > hope this helps. > > > Eric Cope wrote: >> Hello all, >> My friend was running off of a Buffalo NAS, which died. Does anyone know >> how >> to recover his files from a RAID 5 configuration? >> Thanks, >> Eric >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your 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 your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Skype: (623)239-3392 AT&T: (503)754-4452 www.it-clowns.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss