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Hello people,

I've salvaged this two-disk RAID-0 (Stripe) with controller from a an
old, dysfunctional computer that had Win2000 and Linux on it. I stuck it
into the new computer, but I can't get it to run any more because I
completely forgot how I had done the configuation on the old one.
Problem is that I need some data from those disks.

Here are the relevant lines from dmesg (the disks are /dev/hd{e,g}):

hde: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue e0824fe8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdg: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue e082543c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

....

hde: attached ide-disk driver.
hde: 49981680 sectors (25591 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=49585/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
hdg: 49981680 sectors (25591 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=49585/16/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 >
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [3111/255/63] p1


After booting, I run modprobe pdcraid. The last lines of dmesg's output
now read:

ataraid/d0: p1
Drive 0 is 24405 Mb (34 / 0)
Raid0 array consists of 1 drives.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.03beta

And that's that. When I mount /dev/ataraid/d0p1 (it only has one
fat32 partition on it), ls only shows garbage.

I've tried swapping the disks with no success. I'm running Debian stable
with a 2.4.27-k7 kernel.

Thanks for any help,

robert

Robert Latest <boblatest@yahoo.com> did eloquently scribble:
> And that's that. When I mount /dev/ataraid/d0p1 (it only has one
> fat32 partition on it), ls only shows garbage.
>
> I've tried swapping the disks with no success. I'm running Debian stable
> with a 2.4.27-k7 kernel.
>
> Thanks for any help,

Try downloading the promise driver source from promise.com.
I did that a few times and the promise drivers tended to work a lot better
back in '02/03 than pdcraid, using sda (and you could boot off them, which
I never got lilo to do on /dev/ataraid)

(select linux, when it offers suse/redhat/other, go for other and it offers
a tarball)

You MAY need to downgrade to a much older 2.4 kernel though.
Try a 2.4.10 if it won't compile properly against .27.
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