RAID0 - crashola

[The Andreyp]

now he repaired it ?

[RHALUKA]

lol !   No, he just doesnt have it anymore

[The Andreyp]

lol !   No, he just doesnt have it anymore

nah so. i guess,he have copies of the all important info ? if he had lost all his drives!

[Snipe[LAN]]

....that USED TO BE his house a few years ago!   I think it was *huge*
  Looks like an English mansion to me ...I prefer small squarish houses - -white or colourful (orange, yellow) - mexican type

I just like the fountain with the gargoils...Hmmm whats that black car?

That's a Lotus Espirit twin-turbo, twin air-air intercooled  V8.  Output is 350bhp, I believe?  I personally don't like the styling of that car ... In exotic terms, I prefer the Ferrari F355 Berlinetta in Scarlet red ( if we're talking about cars from around that era)

: NOTE : Don't bring up performance cars around me, unless you want to me to talk for days!  I'm a big car nut, almost as much as I am a nut about video games and military aircraft.

[RHALUKA]

wow i bet you are...

[Snipe[LAN]]

The hat I'm wearing in that picture is a British American Racing ( BAR ) Honda hat.  It's Jaques Villenueve's ( If I didn't spell his name correctly, it's because I'm not French ).  He was lead driver #10 for the BAR Honda Formula 1 team in 2002.  

Remus Sport Exhaust is the side logo ... unfortunately, Villenueve couldn't compete with the heavy engine in his Honda ( Mugen needs to slap their engineers around ).  Geeze, there I go again ... ramble ramble ramble

EDIT :: In case anyone didn't notice ... that's my sister's cat my GF is holding that is drinking my cocktail.  I believe it was a vodka/orange juice screwdriver lol

[The Andreyp]

no nothing better than Conversation with each other personally! because you will not get answers in most cases,if you use forums or mail!    

[warlordQ]

EDIT :: In case anyone didn't notice ... that's my sister's cat my GF is holding that is drinking my cocktail.  I believe it was a vodka/orange juice screwdriver lol

LOL .... a drunken cat.... yeah i didnt even noticed your girlfriend was holding a cat....

Looks like an English mansion to me ...I prefer small squarish houses - -white or colourful (orange, yellow) - mexican type

that house looks awsome...


speaking of houses, i live in a 1 room place... here is a photo the day i moved in..
Photo of my apartment here

[The Romero]

I might not be online for a bit......i rebooted my computer yesterday and it wouldn't boot up again.  I have a 160/160gb RAID0 config....so if one of the drives goes out, they're both out.  I'm hoping that just the boot sector got trashed.  I'll be trying to fix the prob tonight and this weekend.

My first attempt is to get a new hard drive, put XP on it and see if the RAID drives will come online.  If anyone has any better advice, feel free to give it.

Your idea is about as good as it will get.  You wont be able to bring back the drives that are in RAID0 if one of them died.

Might want to look into RAID5.  Speed of RAID0 (if you have a good RAID card with a Hardware XOR unit) and fault-tolerance.

If you had WinXP on the RAID0 array, it's a terrible idea.  You'll actually slow down the computer by putting the OS on any RAID array since you'll increase the seek times.  The OS only makes small reads at a time, so it wants the lowest latency possible -- RAID makes the worst case seek time of any of the drives the average case seek time of the array.

Thanks for the advice.  I got a 200gb drive, put XP/SR2 on it, and the "crashed" RAID0 drives are on E:.  Now, whenever i start the computer the RAID Manager sees the drives and after about 10 seconds it decides they're bad and locks access out.  But during that 10 seconds i can copy data off the drive - i've recovered about 20gb so far.

So....that sounds like either a faulty RAID controller, a jacked-up bridge on the motherboard, or one of the drives is going bad.  What do you think?

[The Andreyp]

200gb ? VAX! btw: now i have 432 mb of free space on my 120 gb drive!

i have no experience with RAID system,and my help =0

[Snipe[LAN]]

I might not be online for a bit......i rebooted my computer yesterday and it wouldn't boot up again.  I have a 160/160gb RAID0 config....so if one of the drives goes out, they're both out.  I'm hoping that just the boot sector got trashed.  I'll be trying to fix the prob tonight and this weekend.

My first attempt is to get a new hard drive, put XP on it and see if the RAID drives will come online.  If anyone has any better advice, feel free to give it.

Your idea is about as good as it will get.  You wont be able to bring back the drives that are in RAID0 if one of them died.

Might want to look into RAID5.  Speed of RAID0 (if you have a good RAID card with a Hardware XOR unit) and fault-tolerance.

If you had WinXP on the RAID0 array, it's a terrible idea.  You'll actually slow down the computer by putting the OS on any RAID array since you'll increase the seek times.  The OS only makes small reads at a time, so it wants the lowest latency possible -- RAID makes the worst case seek time of any of the drives the average case seek time of the array.

Thanks for the advice.  I got a 200gb drive, put XP/SR2 on it, and the "crashed" RAID0 drives are on E:.  Now, whenever i start the computer the RAID Manager sees the drives and after about 10 seconds it decides they're bad and locks access out.  But during that 10 seconds i can copy data off the drive - i've recovered about 20gb so far.

So....that sounds like either a faulty RAID controller, a jacked-up bridge on the motherboard, or one of the drives is going bad.  What do you think?

Sounds like it could be a faulty controller to me.  If it is one of the drives, you're screwed other than the painstaking segmented recovery you are attempting.  You can only rebuild a RAID array that uses parity or mirror/duplexing so that option is out ... You can either continue the copying, or use a different controller.  Is the controller built-in with the motherboard you have?  If it is, don't forget to disable it if you get a new one.

[warlordQ]

So....that sounds like either a faulty RAID controller, a jacked-up bridge on the motherboard, or one of the drives is going bad.  What do you think?

Im not too sure about raid stuff... but if you want all your data off your hard drive, your best bet is to take it into a computer shop and they can extract all data from it they have the gear to do this... A friend of mine his hard drive crashed, the computer shop put all the data onto another drive...

[Louise]

I didn't know that, it shall be handy to remember that for the future if ever I should need to know.