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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A lot of the old hardware RAID controllers by various manufacturers were actually OEM from LSI. (e.g. most of the Dell PERC and SAS controllers since PERC
2 – the early PERC 2 actually had both an Adaptec and an LSI model).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you can determine the vendor/model from the failed computer’s RAID whether embedded into the motherboard or a separate slot you might be able to find an
equivalent OEM. Sometimes newer versions in the same family will see the RAID setup of older drives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I haven’t used Pivar in forever because luckily I haven’t needed to but they were able to get some really old data for me once off of tape. You might give
them a call to see if they can do anything for you if all else fails:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Benjie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 06, 2014 12:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Hardware RAID5 recovery in software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Dustin Strickland <<a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com" target="_blank">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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>
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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>
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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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