Two RAID questions

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 14:10:37 UTC 2007


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On 14-Nov-07, at 7:09 PM, IsomerX wrote:

>
> First; I have a Fiesty box where the OS is installed on an EIDE hard
> drive.  It also has a SATA RAID 5 array. mdadm is managing the RAID 5
> array.

>
> Second; and in fact more important.  One of the other systems to die
> had a RAID 0 being managed by the MB (it was a Silicon Image
> controller; SiI3112).  The MB died.

My educated GUESS here is that the mdadm array will come up fine, and  
you are screwed with the hardware raid.
AFAIK hardware raid arrays require the OEM controller to recover the  
data as they all use proprietary formats.
That being said, I ASSUME there are other brands and models of board  
using the same controller, but I have no idea which ones.

Why not boot a live CD and see what it finds?

Brian
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