On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 Apr 2010, at 09:41, Tino Schwarze wrote: >> >> As far as I know, this is not possible since any RAID setup will need >> some bytes of Metadata at the start or end of a partition/device. > > I understood there was some 50 bytes or so in the first sector of the > hard-drive that was unallocated in the conventional disk layout, and > that RAID systems typically put their metadata in there. > > Magnus: you may be able to determine this by creating a RAID1 and then > comparing an fdisk of it with the fdisk of the existing drive. If it > has the same number of bytes (or more) then you can boot from a LiveCD > and clone using dd (or GNU ddrescue). > > Stroller. >
I believe megaraid controllers put raid metadata at the end. That's why it's possible to recover data from a raid 1 drive without the raid controller. Partitions and filesystems are detected when connected as regular drives. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
