We think the drives are good. We want to mount the four drives to extract
the data (it was RAID 5). We only have 1 SATA2USB adapter. If I am able to
read the whole paritition (using dd), how can I mount 4 iso's using RAID to
get the data?
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Lisa Kachold <
lisakachold@obnosis.com>wrote:
> Hi ERIC
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> some light googling revealed buffalo as a UFS partition over four drives.
>> Has anyone recovered a software RAID 5 configuration? Can I dd to an iso,
>> mount the iso's, mount the raid, extract the data, and move forward?
>
>
> You might have a different super block on the disk from Buffalo. You
> might check your exact model (Is this a LinkStation) against the HowTo's
> from Buffalo?
>
> Knoppix works really well for restoring disks (every systems admin needs a
> knoppix USB flash)
>
> Page 218 dd_rescue (in case there are bad blocks):
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/15490322/Knoppix-Hacks-by-OReilly-Media
>
> Buffalo's Wiki shows a procedure on how to restore data to a LinkStation
> using Knoppix:
>
> http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Upgrade_%28or_replace%29_the_existing_LinkStation_hard_drive
>
> And:
>
> http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Upgrade_%28or_replace%29_the_existing_LinkStation_hard_drive#Backup_your_entire_hard_drive.2C_partition_a_blank_drive_on_a_Knoppix_workstation
>
> Full Knoppix Hacks (ripped to Scribd):
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/15490322/Knoppix-Hacks-by-OReilly-Media
>
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