[wplug] RAID 5 question on recovery

Chris Romano romano.chris at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 21:45:24 EDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Andrew Fisk <andy at spitcomp.com> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2008, at Wednesday, September 3, 20088:16 PM, Chris Romano
> wrote:
>> I have an Iomega NAS with 4 SATA drives configured in RAID 5.  The box
>> seems to have died but the drives still spin and seem to working fine.
>> Because it's a NAS box, there aren't any communication ports other
>> than the NIC so I have no way of figuring out what is going on.  I've
>> talked to Iomega and they are going to ship me out a new box but I
>> need to recover the data that are on the drives.  This because runs a
>> version of linux ... not sure what kernel or anything.  Any chance
>> that I could hook these drives up to a RAID controller and get at the
>> data?
>>
>> BTW ... I know people are going to say that regular backups should
>> have been done ... it was being backed up. However, the backup failed
>> the last few days.  So it was kind of like a perfect storm to loss
>> data.
>>
> why not just put the drives in the new box?
>

I thought about that, but iomega said that the box will most likely
try to reformat the drives.  I don't want to take that chance.

Chris

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