first post never showed up, so i'm trying again. > hello everyone, > > my brother sent me the following message and i told him i was gonna forward it > to the list to see if anyone has any ideas to save the data on the disks or > fix the problem. i have convinced him to try linux out, and he decided to try > it after his server was hacked into a month or so ago. he has installed suse > and it didn't see his raid controller and he switched back to caldera. at the > same time he decided to try caldera ws3.1 instead of 2.4d he had before. > so i really don't know where he is at except what is in the e-mail below. what > should he try? what program/os to do it with? i have since gotten another > e-mail and he says he lost his win98 partition also. he was dual booting > with winnt and suse/caldera, i think caldera is on there right now. windows nt > cannot read the disks either. > any suggestions are appreciated. > > steve thompson > > > pretty strange, I had three drives setup as a stripe volume ~120GB > > within that volume i had three partitions - one 60 MB (i was trying to make > > 60 GB and didn't put in enough 0's, didn't notice right away), one 60 GB > > and one ~58 GB. Of these partitions the 60 MB was fat32 and the other two > > were NTFS5. I didn't have anything on the fat32 partition (not big enough > > to hold anything) > > > > History! > > > When I first got the drives (maxtor 40GB)/raid controller (iwill > > side raid100), I couldn't get the bios to load. When the bios is loading it > > gives the option to hit "ctrl H" to enter setup for the card. This setup is > > where you configure the stripe/mirror/etc. If the bios doesn't load you > > can't set it up, simple enough eh. Well I downloaded the latest bios > > (1.0.3b at the time) from highpoint-tech.com and flashed the bios on the > > hpt370 chip. That worked, I could see the bios load and I got the press > > "ctrl H" message, but then my comp hung while trying to load my scsi > > (2940uw) bios. After much agonizing, Dale told me to swap the scsi and raid > > cards so the scsi bios would load first, it worked. Everything's hunky-dory > > and working fine. > > > > While loading linux (lizard) I can see the volume (hde1) from linux but > > never tried to mount it. It seems something was missing. Of the three > > harddrives, I only had one stripe volume and three partitions within that > > stripe volume. Linux would see all three harddrives hde/hdf/hdg but would > > only show a partition on hde as "hde1". This partition hde1, I think, was > > my stripe set because it listed it as 114GB in size. It should have treated > > the stripe volume as an extended partition and listed the individual > > partitions. Anyway! > > > > While loading COL wksta 3.1 in expert mode, I wanted to designate the > > partitions to load whatever. During the Lizard setup of the hd's I saw the > > HDE1 partition listed. It gave a peculiar file system type (can't remember > > exactly) and listed the size as ~114GB. I wondered if COL had a default > > mount point for the partition so I selected it and hit edit. It didn't show > > a default mount point so I hit cancel. I double checked to see that it was > > not going to format that partition, it wasn't. And I continued on loading > > my distro. > > > > Everything's fine, 3.1 ws loaded no problem but, the next time I booted, > > there was no "press cntl H" message and no raid bios loaded. COL 3.1 boots > > to grub and stops and I've never used grub and don't want to learn how that > > late at night. I just want to figure out what happened to my raid. So I > > boot into win2k and check for the raid drives. I had the two large > > partitions mounted as subdirectories within my 2k "D" drive and I also had > > them assigned their own drive letter, neither was there. However, the 60 MB > > fat32 was there, go figure. All three partitions are on the stripe set and > > the bios didn't load and the other two are missing, how's this working. So, > > I decide to write to this partiton to make sure it is really there, no > > problem, I filled it up. So, now I have a raid controller whose bios isn't > > loading, a stripe set on that raid controller that only has 1 of 3 > > partitions avialable and a very confused administrator ;-) > > > > I went to highpoint-tech.com and downloaded the latest bios and re-flashed > > the bios, still no raid controller. In the meantime, I had deleted all the > > linux partitions off the drive sda and only had the win98 partition left. I > > reloaded COL 3.1 ws, I wanted to see if lizard still could see the drives, > > it could, I don't know how. > > > > I think I lost ~80GB of data ;-( > > Some of the data I have on my linux server (music) but, a lot of it is > > totally gone. > > I had just emptied all my back-up tapes onto my stripe set and > > retensioned/reformatted my tapes. I had deleted all the duplicate files > > from my back-up tapes and was ready to put the data back on hopefully using > > less tapes ; ) Then I decided to dikaround with linux instead of backing-up > > ;-( _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
