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On Tuesday 19 July 2005 19:37, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: |
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> Thanks for the reply Colin =) |
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> > If you remember your stripe size, then you should be able to plug |
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> > your drives into any ICH5R-based motherboard and get your data back. |
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> > Theoretically, you could plug your drives into any RAID whose BIOS |
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> > does not write to the disks when creating an array and then recreate |
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> > the array in the BIOS with the same stripe size. I don't know if |
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> > software RAID can rebuild your array, but that seems like your best |
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> > bet, lest you have a friend with a lot of SATA RAID controllers (s) |
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> > he's willing to lend out. |
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> I already ordered another ICH5R motherboard (similar to my P4P800 but |
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> a new model, since my old one is not available anymore) to try that |
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> out. I'm almost sure that my stripe size is 64KB (default). If so, |
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> plugging my hard drives into the new board and creating a new array |
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> with the same stripe size will give me access to my data? Or is there |
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> the risk of loosing it all? Do you know if the ICH5R writes to the |
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> disks when creating the array? |
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> > If all else fails and your data is priceless, grab a couple grand and |
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> > look into professional data recovery, because unless you can find a |
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> > super-geek, that will probably be your best bet. |
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> Unfortunately I cannot afford such a service, even though my data is |
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> crucial to me, they're just too expensive for my pocket. :-( |
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> José Pedro |
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My one BIG FAT WARNING to you would be to think for 30 seconds or more before |
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pushing any buttons when redoing your disks. |
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Its very easy to accidentally format things when you don't know exactly what |
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your doing... at least for me it is; I've done it :-p |
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Wishing the best of luck, |
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Patrick Rutkowski |
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