<div dir="ltr">Is this a SATA or a SCSI HBA? Is the HBA a card, or is it built into the motherboard? Is it a software raid using the mainboard's SATA interfaces? Can you answer those questions?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Dustin Strickland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com" target="_blank">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just want to put this out there: I'm not *very* familiar with RAID,<br>
but I get by. I have a unique situation and I'm not sure how to handle<br>
it -- suggestions would be appreciated.<br>
<br>
So, my client has a machine - an *old* machine - that was running an<br>
ancient version of Redhat, acting as a Samba server. I'm not too clear<br>
on the details of what happened, but the result: the motherboard in the<br>
server is apparently bad. So is the RAID card that was installed. Also<br>
one of the disks of the three that were installed. The other two work<br>
fine. This machine will not boot, I tried everything. We've made the<br>
decision to set up another machine to run Samba. Now here's the hitch.<br>
The only available machine has only two SATA ports and we still need to<br>
grab his old data.<br>
<br>
Yesterday I used a Live USB stick to dd the data from both of the good<br>
drives, one at a time, on to a third. Now, I don't even know if the<br>
data is recoverable - after we started copying the second disk, we left<br>
it to run overnight so I haven't been able to check it out. If it *is*,<br>
how would I go about it? I've never encountered hardware RAID before,<br>
either - would this even be possible to fix in software?<br>
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