On 06/26/11 12:58 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
All the drives are old 160GB SATA. There's 1x 160GB IDE as well.
They were used in the office on various machines, so no hardware RAID, but they definitely had some data on them. I did get some drives with software RAID on and could recover the data, but there's 2 drives which I can't figure out what filesystem they have / had on them. We use Linux & FreeBSD, so I suspect they had ZFS / UFS on them, but couldn't mount them on a FreeBSD server with ZFS or UFS either.
is it possible you used the raw disk without partitioning? so in linux, that would be /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 or whatever.
on a random server with normally partitioned disks...
# file -s /dev/sda /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 256977 sectors; partition 2: ID=0xfd, starthead 0, startsector 257040, 4192965 sectors; partition 3: ID=0xfd, starthead 0, startsector 4450005, 138914055 sectors, code offset 0x48
# file -s /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)