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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 18:11:52 +0200
From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
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Subject: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid
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Hi Greg and list!

I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid.

One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and
makes the usual noises, but then it stalls with a katjing, katjing
and so on. It seems like either the steering electronics, or the
read/write-heads mechanics, have failed.

I did contact a data recovery company and they say they need both
disks to restore the raid, because of that the raid initializing
might be corrupted.

My questions is:

Do they need both disks?

Isn't it enough if they make a disk image of the failed drive, and
I will then be able to restore the raid data initialization in vinum
by a vinum create, or something similar?

Will they be able to recreate the raid data without using vinum
anyway?

Thank you in advance for an answer!

Best regards,
Paul