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    Posted: 17 January 2011 at 9:54pm
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adaptec 3 channel card set to striped array mode
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one say fk you.

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Late and tired, but a striped array with no parity has no redundancy. Lose a drive, lose the data.
 
 
Unless I'm forgetting or the explanation is not as I read it.
 
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Total loss i'm afraid unless there's some parity going on

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How failed is the drive, if you can get it to respin on another host adapter as a JBOD disk you may be able to plug it back onto the RAID card, load config from HDD and pull the data off.
Sometimes drives timeout on spin-up and get tagged shagged so removing all the physcial drives from the host, clear the array on host (flagged dead) and reconnecting all drives cause the HBA to reload config and if the disc spins up you could be able to lift the data.
 
I would do with a copy of Hiren's boot CD in the CDROM drive and a spare SATA or IDE HDD connected so you do pull the array back up you can instantly ghost the data to another drive...
 
 
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Freezer trick comes to mind as well.
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I've never had any success with the freezer
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tell me more about the freezer

I repaired computers on the side for about 9 years and didn't come across this method
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Works in two ways, bearing failure on a drive, or overheating controller chip on drive.
Sealed in a bag, put in freezer:
What little lubrication that is left on drive spindle gets thicker, ergo drive spins true. Also everything contracts, shrinks in effect.
Broken chip on drive may work as it's super cold.
 
Old 2003 Western Digitals, Maxtor and IBM's going click crash usually respond well.
I recon I get away with about 4 in 10 like this, in the case of bearing type failure hanging the cold drive on its cable and swinging it about can also help.
 
OBVIOUSLY use the drive as a slave, not a boot, and be quick.
 


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interesting read

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