Re: Read RAID1 drive member without 3ware RAID controller

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The Moojit

"Fabien Salvi" <fabien.salvi@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I've very strange troubles with 3ware 8006 RAID controllers using Maxtor
> hard disks (maybe because of that ?) on different workstations.
>
> I got some file corruption errors under Windows on one workstation,
> "Incomplete drive" status reported by the RAID controller on another
> workstation running linux where I lost months of data because the RAID
> controller show the the host drive in June's state !!
>
> So, I would like to read this "incomplete" hard disk that 3ware RAID
> controller can't do anything of it (except erasing it).
>
> I tried to connect this hard disk to the standard serial ATA port of the
> motherboard. But, I can't see any partition on it.
> I suppose 3ware have a specific format on the members of a RAID pool. If
> it was RAID5, I would try anything because with parity, it would be too
> difficult to recover data, but with RAID1, it should be so complicated,
> I hope.
>
> Does anyone know how to read the hard disk ?
> I supposed they just use some ofset to store meta-informations at the
> beginning of the hard disk or something like that.
> Any tool to do that ?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help !
>
> --
> Fabien


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