Weiner, Michael wrote, On 05/24/2010 10:28 AM:
List Readers -
I have a Dell server that uses the Perc 6i controller and had 5 1Tb disks installed (1 for OS and the other 4 in a Raid0 for a large storage pool).
[root@gc-server2 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255552 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
Are you sure that the Perc was not presenting you with a logical disk (Volume)? One I received from dell, with RHEL on it, was setup with 8 disks in a raid5 and the controller was presenting the whole array as two drives, i.e., no physical drives are presented to the OS.
BTW had your support contract ran out with Dell/RH?
Two things are a bit unusual here, first of all its not a 2Tb disk, and secondly why cant I read the partition table.
Originally the OS was on an LVM volume and by default it was setup as
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
you might get lucky with a vgscan or lvmdiskscan, however my bet is on having to put all the drives back in a perc array.
My question is, is there a way to connect and mount this via USB and be able to get the $HOME directory stuff off that I failed to copy off before removing the disk?
Thanks in advance
Michael