On Sunday 26 March 2006 21:45, Alan Dayley wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
I concur. We are, however, without a proper sized torx bit to accomplish this
(will wait and head off to the hardware store tomorrow to find one)
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> 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.
the above is true in HARDWARE RAD-0. However, given that this was a linux
(suse 10+) software raid-0, it appears (and was proven by direct observation)
that the data was written in serial fashion from 1 drive and spanning to the
second.
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> 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.
understandable.
we are exploring all available options though (and I have contacted the
developer though have not yet received a reply).
>
> Good Luck!
thank you!
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