I got antsy and called HighPoint Technologies tech support - they said that for the default config using mirrored drives, taking one of the drives and connecting it to a 2nd system should be fine. The only time this would be a problem is if the card was configured with a setting called "disk spin up" which if configured, will prevent the drives from spinning unless they are connected to this specific raid card - but he said that setting is rarerly used. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and will give it a shot.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Phillip Partipilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that just about every hardware RAID card I've used recently store > the configuration on the drive itself, so order shouldn't matter. It doesn't > matter even on Nvidia onboard pseudo-raid. > > > > Phillip Partipilo > Parametric Solutions Inc. > Jupiter, Florida > (561) 747-6107 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 4:59 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Recovering data from a mirrored drive > > > > So stupid question time - I disconnected them from the controller card > - I assumed since they are mirroed it didn't really matter how they were > connected - but as I type this I'm worried I might have shot myself in the > foot.... does the order they are connected to the controller matter? > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But then you have to put in the drivers BEFORE you actually install >> the entire hardware but I agree I have had more luck that way. >> >> Good luck, >> >> Jon >> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> >>> Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends entirely on the drive controller. >>> >>> What is 100% guaranteed to work is to take the *entire* *drive* >>> *array* and hook it up into another machine. >>> >>> Bryan Garmon wrote: >>> > I haven't worked with recovering data off of a Mirrored drive so >>> > I'm a little nervous here - but what I was hoping that what I could >>> > do is unplug one of the 250GB SATA drives from the RAID card, set >>> > it as a slave drive on another system running server 2003, turn on >>> > the other system and then pull the data off the partition. Will >>> > this work for me to recovery the data? >>> > >>> > Thanks for any input. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Phil Brutsche >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > -- > If this email is spam, report it here: > http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpam&Id=ODEzNjQ6ODA1NTYyMzgwOn > BqcEBwc25ldC5jb20%3D > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
