On Monday 15 October 2007, John R Pierce wrote: > Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > On Monday 15 October 2007, Dan Carl wrote: > > ... > >> But with errors > >> In dmesg have this: > >> sda: Mode Sense: bf 00 00 08 > >> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > >> sda: unknown partition table > >> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda ... > > > > Try "mount -oro /dev/sda /mnt/tmp" (or whatever) or just see if there's a > > superblock there with "tune2fs -l /dev/sda". > > he has a hardware raid set of drives originally from a HP/Compaq > SmartArray controller, now connected to a simple non-raid scsi > controller. sorry, thats not gonna play no way no how. >Since he only mentioned one device on his centos, there are centainly >plausible ways this could work. The original cciss array could have been a >single drive, could have been a raid1, could have been a misunderstood hwraid >just tunneled through the host adapter as a single driver, etc. . 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? /Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kjellstrom" <cap at nsc.liu.se> To: <centos at centos.org> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Trying to recover data off SATA-to-SCSI external 2TBARRAY > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >