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On 12/10/2005 1:04 PM Nick Smith wrote: |
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>On 12/10/05, drew@××××××××××××××.net <drew@××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. |
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>>There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the |
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>>controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a |
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>>Windows XP workstation. Now that Windows installation is hosed up and I'm |
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>>using the opportunity to covert this machine to a Gentoo desktop. |
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>>However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before |
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>>blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two |
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>>icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can |
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>>not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive |
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>>individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. |
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>>Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix to see the |
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>>two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover the data |
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>>from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself shortly |
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>>after logon. |
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>>Thanks, |
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>>Drew |
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>what about safe mode? |
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Safe mode with networking still leaves me without networking which I need |
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>or an overlay install? |
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Tried that. Still hosed |
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>or even the recovery |
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>console? |
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Never had any luck with this. Maybe I just don't know how to use it? |
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>i know that doesnt answer your knoppix question but i deal |
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>with that crap everyday and i have tried using knoppix a few times and |
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>it had problems with the ntfs partitions. where would you put the |
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>data once you got it? |
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Was hoping to mount an smbfs filesystem and transfer it to another |
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machine. Hence the need for networking above. |
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>its booted off the cd, so even if it was a |
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>burner how would you burn something when the drive is being used? a |
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>flash drive possibly. but probably the easiest way to get that data |
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>(sorry to say) is get winders functioning again, get your data, and |
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>then blow it away. which rises a question, if its a hardware raid |
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>stripe, i dont think knoppix should be seeing both drives, i thought |
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>the hardware controller told it what to see, so it should only see the |
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>one raid device, at least that was my take on it. |
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This is what I thought too. |
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>hope some of this |
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>helps. |
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At least I know I'm not the only one confused. :) |
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Thanks, |
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Drew |
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