Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:11:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > If I understood this right, you have two disks with data and they were > > previously configured as RAID1 volume. > > What make\model RAID-controller do yo

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:11:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: If I understood this right, you have two disks with data and they were previously configured as RAID1 volume. What make\model RAID-controller do you use? Because "cages" by themselves offer only SATA\SAS ports for disks to co

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-24 Thread David Christensen
On 9/24/19 7:00 AM, David wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 07:50, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. system. I recognise that was only that easy to do because I knew that the original partition arrange

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-24 Thread David
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 07:50, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: > > 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. > system. I recognise that was only that easy to do because I knew that > the original partition arrangement was so simple. If it had

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: > > Posible Options: > 1. if you use lilo, look for a copy of parttions table. > 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. I'm running GRUB not lilo -- used lilo back in the 90's but switched to grub whenever Debian started prescribi

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-23 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 23.09.2019 3:40, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've > damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible > to recover. > > The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of the > disks came fr

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-22 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 23/09/2019 08:37, Debian Buster wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 23:40:51 +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hello While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible to recover. The cage has 5 disk slots each occup

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-22 Thread Debian Buster
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 23:40:51 +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've > damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible > to recover. > > The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of the