She went tits up

[Jobo]

Well, I don't think she spins. I might try the Linux CD and see if I get anywhere.

/shrug

[Gornax]

Back in the day of 500MB, 5.25 full height SCSI drives, we would periodically replace the board on the bottom of the drive with one from a working drive. Admittedly, this was 15+ years ago. It may no longer be feasible to do that.

Otherwise, a very expensive data recovery facility is about the only way to go to actually get data off of the drive.


GG

[Jobo]

[odeyssus]

Originally Posted by Neyland

Acronis failed and as a side note, has real issues with SATA RAID controllers.

The REAL issue it has with RAID controllers is that is doesn't have EVERY possible driver in its database like every other backup solution. You must make a BARTPE (aka Linux) disk with your RAID driver on it and THEN run Acronis. Works just dandy. Even on hardware RAID controllers in servers.

But, the Linux route will work as well if you want more options for data recovery as you indicated. Depends on the severity of the situation.

I'm just describing my methods and what has worked for me.

[Xavor]

We purchased 20 odd machines about 2 years ago - all set up RAID 1 (mirrored) on Gigabyte mobos with 2 SATA RAID ports.

I seem to end up with 1-2 HDDs (Western Digitial) to replace every month since - sad to say, I haven't had a very nice experience with onboard RAID over the past coupla years 8(

Anybody know a mobo that has a good(or better GREAT) RAID controller?

[odeyssus]

Don't those GB MB's have Intel RAID as well on them? Mine does and yes, I agree, GB RAID sucks.

[Xavor]

Indeed they do.

What's most annoying is that I take the bad HDD, format using Ubuntu gdisk then reuse and they're fine X(

[odeyssus]

I set up my PC initially with GB RAID unfortunately. I had issues and switched to Intel's controller and things have been fine since.

And I mean issues writing and playing back gargantuan FRAPS files in HD 1920X1200 which equates to about 4 GB per 2:30 mins!

That's why I bought the Hauppauge PVR that does MP4 conversion in realtime. Now my captures are tiny and look just as good.

[odeyssus]

Originally Posted by Xavor

Indeed they do.

What's most annoying is that I take the bad HDD, format using Ubuntu gdisk then reuse and they're fine X(

Some RAID controllers such as HP/Compaq flag drives that otherwise work fine. I went round and round with HP over this. They suck!

These were HP ML350s by the way.

[Jobo]

I have four Raptor drives that when in RAID kept reporting they were bad. Now that I use them in non-RAID configs, they do not report any issues . . .