to read data from RAID disk from another computer.
Hello. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask my question about a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server's raid problem. If I'm in the wrong place please let me know. I am the new administrator. On the server there ware two 9GB IBM SCSI harddisk in RAID. When I touch the server the RAID card is already lost (I cannot reach the old admin), I don't even know what kind of RAID and what module of RAID card it was running. Now people want me to recover the data in the two harddisk. I tried to plug the two harddisk on a Dell PowerEdge 6400 server. I can see these disks in Raid Setup, but I don't want to try doing silly things like wiping the disk out by mistake. Can you point me what to do now? I'm not familiar with RAID things. Acutally I'm a bit newbie on it. Thank you. And I really appreciate your help. |
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:23:40 +0800, Zhang Weiwu
wrote: Hello. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask my question about a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server's raid problem. If I'm in the wrong place please let me know. I am the new administrator. On the server there ware two 9GB IBM SCSI harddisk in RAID. When I touch the server the RAID card is already lost (I cannot reach the old admin), I don't even know what kind of RAID and what module of RAID card it was running. Now people want me to recover the data in the two harddisk. I tried to plug the two harddisk on a Dell PowerEdge 6400 server. I can see these disks in Raid Setup, but I don't want to try doing silly things like wiping the disk out by mistake. Can you point me what to do now? I'm not familiar with RAID things. Acutally I'm a bit newbie on it. Thank you. And I really appreciate your help. You need to know what RAID controller was in the old computer. Probably can find out from Dell. If it was bought with RAID set up, they can help you find out how it was originally configured. If it was Hardware raid, built in to the controller, you will need to put the drives on a similar controller. Not all raid controllers treat their drives the same. First thing to find out is how it was originally set up JT |
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:23:40 +0800, Zhang Weiwu
wrote: Hello. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask my question about a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server's raid problem. If I'm in the wrong place please let me know. I am the new administrator. On the server there ware two 9GB IBM SCSI harddisk in RAID. When I touch the server the RAID card is already lost (I cannot reach the old admin), I don't even know what kind of RAID and what module of RAID card it was running. Now people want me to recover the data in the two harddisk. I tried to plug the two harddisk on a Dell PowerEdge 6400 server. I can see these disks in Raid Setup, but I don't want to try doing silly things like wiping the disk out by mistake. Can you point me what to do now? I'm not familiar with RAID things. Acutally I'm a bit newbie on it. Thank you. And I really appreciate your help. Do not configure through the RAID setup yet, see if by booting the system, you have access to the data. I'll assume no access but you didn't come right out and write that. The RAID configuration info is written to the disks. You should NOT configure them with another RAID (card). Try to find same card it was previously using, even same bios version if possible, if that info can be found... perhaps a sticker on the card's EEPROM or notes... if all else fails you might assume based on purchase date, or contact card manufacturer and inquire based on markings on the card... likely the bios wasn't updated unless there was specific need to do so. If the prior admin was responsible, s/he should have written the bios version on the card IF it had been changed... thinking in a perfect world perhaps, but it's worth a look. With the correct card, the drives should remain in their correct RAID configuration. Although, a situation like (data lost, card dead, admin MIA) smells funny... it could be that the data is gone, sabotaged. |
kony wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:23:40 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask my question about a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server's raid problem. If I'm in the wrong place please let me know. I am the new administrator. On the server there ware two 9GB IBM SCSI harddisk in RAID. When I touch the server the RAID card is already lost (I cannot reach the old admin), I don't even know what kind of RAID and what module of RAID card it was running. Now people want me to recover the data in the two harddisk. I tried to plug the two harddisk on a Dell PowerEdge 6400 server. I can see these disks in Raid Setup, but I don't want to try doing silly things like wiping the disk out by mistake. Can you point me what to do now? I'm not familiar with RAID things. Acutally I'm a bit newbie on it. Thank you. And I really appreciate your help. Do not configure through the RAID setup yet, see if by booting the system, you have access to the data. I'll assume no access but you didn't come right out and write that. Lucky, I didn't write anything to the disk yet. The RAID configuration info is written to the disks. You should NOT configure them with another RAID (card). Try to find same card it was previously using, even same bios version if possible, if that info can be found... perhaps a sticker on the card's EEPROM or notes... if all else fails you might assume based on purchase date, or contact card manufacturer and inquire based on markings on the card... likely the bios wasn't updated unless there was specific need to do so. If the prior admin was responsible, s/he should have written the bios version on the card IF it had been changed... thinking in a perfect world perhaps, but it's worth a look. Oh Today I'm lucky to find another server, the same module. I dumped out the data out successfully:) Thank you for advices. With the correct card, the drives should remain in their correct RAID configuration. Although, a situation like (data lost, card dead, admin MIA) smells funny... it could be that the data is gone, sabotaged. |
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