On Monday 15 October 2007, Dan Carl wrote: ...
The SmartArray doesn't recognize the external array. So thats why I connected it to a SCSI non-raid controller which does. lvndiskscan on my Centos server even can tell the size of it. /dev/sda [ 2.00 TB] The external array has it's own built in raid controller. The Bios the SmartArray said it was a raid 0 2048GB failed. I not sure why the SmartArray sees it as that because the external array is configured as a raid 5 with spares. Im not familar with the SmartArray and don't have another to try.
Is there no way to access the data other than via the SmartArray?
so give "tune2fs -l /dev/sda" a try. Maybe you'll find a nice ext3 fs, maybe no. It's a non-destructive operation so go ahead.
/Peter