Softraid Multi-dirve Failure

[Stephen]

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 at 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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