most raid controllers give you the option of reading the array config off the disks that it sees, so if you swap out the controller for a known good unit there's a good possibility that you can recover the array(s) if the disks are still intact.
i might have a spare 3200 controller floating around here if you need one. jason On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:06, Steve Hoffman wrote: > Sorry for the Off Topic post, but I'm desperate for answers and > either google doesn't have much or I don't know what to search for. > > I don't know if any of you use Hosted Solutions for your hosting > needs, but my company does and last night something strange happened > there, I don't know any details but the power went down (at least > once) and when it came back up all our machines came online except > one (the oldest one). I did a little poking around and I believe > that I have it narrowed down to an failed RAID Controller. > > The machine starts booting normally, but when it gets to our Compaq > Smart Array 3200 it attempts to initialize for ever. When I > initially hit the power the lights built into this Proliant 6400R's > onboard drives flash, so I can see they are getting power. > > My question is, can I recover this data from the drives? I have > another controller available (almost identical except it's a single > channel controller). I saw one post (the only relevant one I could > find) that said I could rebuild the array configuration from the > information stored on the disks. I have no idea how to do this as > I've never had a RAID card go bad on me before. I do have the Compaq > "Server Setup and Management" CD's V.5 which I see Array Diagnostic > utilities, but before I hose the system completely does anyone have > any experience with this and could offer a few condolences/pointers? > > I do have the system back up and running on a different system > restored from tape backups so we're not down, but we would still like > to get this one back online AND (if possible) recover whatever data > we can. > > Thanks in Advance > > Steve > > The OS is/was RH9 so I'm not completely off topic, but I don't > remember the exact drive configuration i.e. where / was and where > /var was (I think it was 4 drives in two RAID-1 Configurations) if > that helps anyone. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
