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Nicolas M.

2004-05-30, 11:11 am

I have...had an Adaptec AAA-UDMA radi5 ide adaptor.
I had HDx dying in the past, dying along with all data it contained... So,
eventually I bought an affordable raid 5 card. I though I could put
important data on a 3 20gig HD raid 5 array since any one drive could die It
would still be possible to read data.

But now the actual raid adaptor died on me. I am pretty sure I could
recuperate my data if I could find another such adaptor, but I don`t want
to...It turned out NOT to to be a good purchase.

Still is it possible, maybe in Linux, to individually mount the 3 drives and
access the raid5 array ? I mean without the hardware... I understand it
might be slower....(maybe not, the AAA-UDMA was pretty slow anyway)

Thanx in advance to anyone who answers this one,

Nicolas.






Joep

2004-05-30, 11:11 am

http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm


"Nicolas M." <noemail@videotron .qc.ca> wrote in message
news:KXWic.20067$2V6.278271@wagner.videotron.net...
> I have...had an Adaptec AAA-UDMA radi5 ide adaptor.
> I had HDx dying in the past, dying along with all data it contained... So,
> eventually I bought an affordable raid 5 card. I though I could put
> important data on a 3 20gig HD raid 5 array since any one drive could die

It
> would still be possible to read data.
>
> But now the actual raid adaptor died on me. I am pretty sure I could
> recuperate my data if I could find another such adaptor, but I don`t want
> to...It turned out NOT to to be a good purchase.
>
> Still is it possible, maybe in Linux, to individually mount the 3 drives

and
> access the raid5 array ? I mean without the hardware... I understand it
> might be slower....(maybe not, the AAA-UDMA was pretty slow anyway)
>
> Thanx in advance to anyone who answers this one,
>
> Nicolas.
>
>
>
>
>
>



Toshi1873

2004-05-30, 11:11 am

In article <KXWic.20067$2V6.278271
@wagner.videotron.net>, noemail@videotron says...
> I have...had an Adaptec AAA-UDMA radi5 ide adaptor.
> I had HDx dying in the past, dying along with all data it contained... So,
> eventually I bought an affordable raid 5 card. I though I could put
> important data on a 3 20gig HD raid 5 array since any one drive could die It
> would still be possible to read data.
>
> But now the actual raid adaptor died on me. I am pretty sure I could
> recuperate my data if I could find another such adaptor, but I don`t want
> to...It turned out NOT to to be a good purchase.
>
> Still is it possible, maybe in Linux, to individually mount the 3 drives and
> access the raid5 array ? I mean without the hardware... I understand it
> might be slower....(maybe not, the AAA-UDMA was pretty slow anyway)
>


Sadly, we tossed our AAA-UDMA in the trash about a year
ago. (Quite the piece of garbage when compared to even
something as lowly as a Promise SX6000.)

Maybe pick one up on ebay?
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