After recently discussing Raid card (perc 4d*) cards with dell they told me that some of these cards store a backup of the raid config on the HD and from the boot up raid configurator you can recover this information. You might want to look into this and see if you card does same.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, 17 March, 2006 9:56 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: Lost containers > >Running a Dell PowerEdge 4400 with RAID 5 on 6 disks. > >One drive crashed. Got a new one in & replaced it, had it up >and running. > >Boss was curious as to how the lights on the storage bay worked. > >Since its supposed to be hot swappable, he pulled it out, >looked and put >it back in. > >I came in this morning and the configuration utility shows I have no >containers. > >Does anyone know of a utility I can run to recover the containers? >Any other options? Had customer information I really need to recover. > > >You can contact me offlist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Robert Smith >Futura > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
