Just a detail I didn't clarify in my email. The FastTrack is the typical ultracheap windows-only RAID controller. I used it as a completely stupid PATA controller, then I created the RAID volume using softraid. That's why I hope I can just switch to another controller...
Thank you anyway, Manuel -- Hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi > Since the RAID controller can do whatever it likes to the data, I'm not > sure such a command exists (certainly, no *generic* version of such a > command exists). On the other hand, it's quite likely that it just > writes the first n bytes to the first disk, the second n bytes to the > second disk, etc. You may want to dd the first so-many bytes off the > RAID and check them against the disk with some low-level tool. > > This is likely to be quite a bit of work, and anything that doesn't > start with making a low-level copy of both disks via something other > than the RAID controller is probably a bad idea from a data-recovery > standpoint. (OTOH, data recovery is not really the objective.) > > Joachim
