On 22 Jan 2001 17:43:59 -0500, Sean Swehla wrote:
> I don't mean to start another holy war, but I've been looking for
> information on using the FastTrak66 [pseudo-]hardware raid controller
> with _any_ flavor of Linux for about 20 total hrs now and have yet to
> find a satisfying answer.
> I realise that this is not the best card to use, blah, blah, blah. The
> problem I have is this: I already have one of these cards w/ 2 - 20Gb
> Seagate drives on it. The RAID0 worked fine under M$Windoze, and is
> almost full with data I'd rather not lose. Windoze took a nose-dive
> (surprised? :) and now I can't get at that raid. Is there _any_ way to
> get the information off these drives w/o having to deal with any M$
> products?
> I have no objection to using software raid, I just need to get this
> information off first. I found the driver for RH6.2/7.0 on the Promise
> site, but that led exactly nowhere. _Any_ help would be greatly
> appreciated...
The only thing that I can think of would be to know/figure out the
stripe size, and "create" a RAID 0 software array, and hope that let's
you access the data. I have no idea if that would actually work,
though, and I'm not entirely sure how to accomplish it, although I could
probably figure it out if I tried.
Greg
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