[ale] RAIDS ARE NICE WHEN THEY WORK.

[H. A. Story]

Benjie wrote:

>Is it an LSI SATA or SCSI HBA?  I haven't mounted a SCO partition
>under Linux in more than 8 years, and I'm not sure that it is still
>possible.  I don't remember what FS they use,  and I don't think it is
>possible to recreate a hardware array with software raid.
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>On 6/22/06, H. A. Story <adrin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>>I need a little help with RAIDS.  I have a need to get the data of the
>>array of drives but the RAID controller has gone bad.  It is an LSI
>>controller.  I saw something once where someone on the web did DD images
>>of each drive in raid and was able to get those back into the correct
>>order and make a software raid.  This file system is not a Linux Native
>>OS.  It is SCO.  Has anyone here done something like this?   I would
>>assume at this point that not all vendors use the same protocols in the
>>raids and I really wonder how a software raid would figure out the
>>stripping.  Think I would have better luck going through backup tapes at
>>this point.
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>>Adrin
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It is SCSI.  I think the filesystem is HTFS.   I am restoring another 
server tonight, so I will know later.   We where thinking that it would 
be impossible to recreate a hardware RAID with Software, also.   And we 
don't want to spend the $$$ just to get some old scripts and then kill 
the system.