Never heard about that, but thanks for the info. The data isn't THAT valuable though, and most of it is backed up on other drives and such. It would just be convenient if I can pull the stuff that isn't and even better if I can also get the stuff that is.... then I don't have to hunt it down on other drives :).

Plus, the idea of using Windows to restore Linux doesn't sit well with me..... and the fact that I chose XFS over EXT3 probably wouldn't help much.

-Joe

Stephen wrote:

also there is a company that has a tool that will reassemble and pull
data from a linux sfotraid windows app but still very nice...
depending on the value of the data. rstudio i think if you google
that.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Joe Fleming <joe@selectitaly.com> wrote:

Yeah, booting from RAID has always been a little tricky. I actually boot
from a different 80GB drive and run the 4 drives off their own SATA
controller. So, the system is up, I just need to get the array back up
so I can (hopefully) continue copying the data off the array.

If anyone cares, I'm using the Promise TX4 card, just straight up SATA,
no fakeraid or anything like that. It's an old box with only PCI.... the
card has and continues to work flawlessly.

One day I'll build a REAL RAID machine. This one was working fine for a
while, and probably would have continued to do so if the damn drives
would stop failing!

-Joe

Stephen wrote:

Linux raid is ok, but it does not recover well if it is invovled with
your boot partition. in our storage server we are useing a 2 port raid
card and then 6 onboard ports with linux mraid.

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