Hello,
I am trying to rescue a two disk striped array. It was originally a LaCie BigDisk, but its power supply failed catastrophically.
I've been able to ascertain from running some data recovery tools on the two drives and analyzing the broken files it finds, that the stripe size (or is it stripe width?) is 128 KiB. (131072 bytes)
I have both drives installed in a Dell Dimension 8100 running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE.
They show up in /dev as ad2 and ad3.
I was wondering if the gstripe create command modifies the disk contents, or if it would be (relatively) safe to try something like:
[cmd=]gstripe create -s131072 stuff /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3[/cmd]
to rejoin the disks.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I am trying to rescue a two disk striped array. It was originally a LaCie BigDisk, but its power supply failed catastrophically.
I've been able to ascertain from running some data recovery tools on the two drives and analyzing the broken files it finds, that the stripe size (or is it stripe width?) is 128 KiB. (131072 bytes)
I have both drives installed in a Dell Dimension 8100 running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE.
They show up in /dev as ad2 and ad3.
I was wondering if the gstripe create command modifies the disk contents, or if it would be (relatively) safe to try something like:
[cmd=]gstripe create -s131072 stuff /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3[/cmd]
to rejoin the disks.
Thanks in advance for any advice.