On 12/10/2005 1:04 PM Nick Smith wrote:
On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset.
There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the
controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a
Windows XP workstation. Now that Windows installation is hosed up and I'm
using the opportunity to covert this machine to a Gentoo desktop.
However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before
blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two
icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can
not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive
individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is.
Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix to see the
two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover the data
from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself shortly
after logon.
Thanks,
Drew
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what about safe mode?
Safe mode with networking still leaves me without networking which I need
or an overlay install?
Tried that. Still hosed
or even the recovery
console?
Never had any luck with this. Maybe I just don't know how to use it?
i know that doesnt answer your knoppix question but i deal
with that crap everyday and i have tried using knoppix a few times and
it had problems with the ntfs partitions. where would you put the
data once you got it?
Was hoping to mount an smbfs filesystem and transfer it to another
machine. Hence the need for networking above.
its booted off the cd, so even if it was a
burner how would you burn something when the drive is being used? a
flash drive possibly. but probably the easiest way to get that data
(sorry to say) is get winders functioning again, get your data, and
then blow it away. which rises a question, if its a hardware raid
stripe, i dont think knoppix should be seeing both drives, i thought
the hardware controller told it what to see, so it should only see the
one raid device, at least that was my take on it.
This is what I thought too.
hope some of this
helps.
At least I know I'm not the only one confused. :)
Thanks,
Drew
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