> On Mar 26, 2024, at 8:57 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 3/25/2024 9:51 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 20:14, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>> Oops. I guess the fingers work as good as the memory. Sorry
>> about that. I've got about 20 of them. I know they haven't
>> been used since they were taken out of the VAX Cluster I ran
>> at the University. Nothing I have used the SB boxes with since
>> then would know what to do with 9GB of disk space. :-)
>> But, if needed I could probably test them on a PC I have with
>> an Adaptec SCSI in it. It's intended for Ersatz-11 but I expect
>> does could use a disk that big. Too bad there's no way to read
>> them. Might be some interesting stuff left behind by the VAX.
>> Why is there no way to read them? If you have a PC with a SCSI card you can
>> easily boot into the Linux or BSD distro of your choice and make a dd (or
>> ddrescue) image of the entire drive, which could then be accessed by
>> whatever means.
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> These disks were part of a really large RAID array in a SAN connected to
> the VAX cluster. There is no way of reconstructing it and so no way to
> extract usable information.
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> bill
Do you have just part of the RAID set, or enough disks to make a complete one?
If the latter then it's a matter of reverse engineering the RAID layout, which
is likely to be doable.
paul
