<div dir="ltr"><div><div>If all 3 drives are the same make and model, dd the working 2 drives first. Then try replacing the failed drives board with one from a good drive. <br><br></div>with 2 drives out of 3 in a raid5, you're still OK data-wise. raidextract may be able to rebuild the data from the 2 drives.<br>
<br></div>I used a tool a zillion years ago that I can't find right now that did exactly this: from a dd image of all the available drives, extract all the file possible to a new location.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:29 PM, 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">Sorry, let me give you guys a better idea of the hardware - this<br>
appears to be a custom build. Some Asrock motherboard as far as I can<br>
tell with a VIA chipset and an Athlon XP something... an unbranded<br>
SATA2 RAID card(which doesn't work), and the 3 80GB hard drives.<br>
<br>
Jim,<br>
<br>
That's what I was afraid of. Only 2 of the drives still work. I<br>
couldn't get any data off the third drive. Do you think raidextract<br>
might still work in this case?<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:12:53<br>
-0500 Benjie <<a href="mailto:benjie.godfrey@gmail.com">benjie.godfrey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Is this a SATA or a SCSI HBA? Is the HBA a card, or is it built into<br>
> the motherboard? Is it a software raid using the mainboard's SATA<br>
> interfaces? Can you answer those questions?<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Dustin Strickland <<br>
> <a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > I just want to put this out there: I'm not *very* familiar with<br>
> > RAID, but I get by. I have a unique situation and I'm not sure how<br>
> > to handle 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<br>
> > clear on the details of what happened, but the result: the<br>
> > motherboard in the server is apparently bad. So is the RAID card<br>
> > that was installed. Also one of the disks of the three that were<br>
> > installed. The other two work fine. This machine will not boot, I<br>
> > tried everything. We've made the decision to set up another machine<br>
> > to run Samba. Now here's the hitch. The only available machine has<br>
> > only two SATA ports and we still need to grab his old data.<br>
> ><br>
> > Yesterday I used a Live USB stick to dd the data from both of the<br>
> > good drives, one at a time, on to a third. Now, I don't even know<br>
> > if the data is recoverable - after we started copying the second<br>
> > disk, we left it to run overnight so I haven't been able to check<br>
> > it out. If it *is*, how would I go about it? I've never encountered<br>
> > hardware RAID before, either - would this even be possible to fix<br>
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