On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:06:00 +0200, Matthias Jaenichen wrote: > Hi, > > a (new) customer of mine had a running RAID-system with an AAA-Controller. > His office was broken into and the system, the controller, the Backup-Tapes > but not the Raid-DISKs have been stolen. (don't ask me about the > intelligence of that thief!) > > So what we have is 4 DISKS (18 GB) that had been running in RAID-5. Adaptec > does not know if a new AAA-Controller would be able to find the old > configuration, but we will try (finding an outdated controller is quite > hard ;-( ) > > I am now doing a "dd" on the raw devices to at least backup the data. Is > there a way to use Linux-Raid to either address the physical drives or the > image-files in an ADAPTEC-Manner? The only way md could do that is if it understood the AAA metadata format. It only understands its native metadata, so it can't decipher the AAA-format metadata on the disks. Most RAID controllers store information like stripe size, disk order, spare info, etc. on disk, so you can move the array between controllers. I don't know that the AAA controllers do that, but I suspect that they do. > Any other ideas to recover the data would also be nice. Your best bet will be to find another AAA controller. It looks like you can get a AAA-131U2 for $445 from NECX: http://www.necxdirect.com I don't know if that's the model your customer had or the cheapest price, but it is available. Ken -- Kenneth Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
