[sdiy] OT: how to save a dead Raided Drive?

[Dan Snazelle]

unless its a dead controller 

my plan is to go out and buy an ata to usb box

test each drive to see if it spins and works

then i will know i either A need to get a new card to control the drives, or B send it out for recovery 


one thing i noticed while testing tonight is that the Input voltage to each drive (which is supposed to be 12v) was at 13.1 volts

and the lacie Ac adapter is rated at 12 volts out too...

odd...

anyway...the drives are getting power but neither are spinning.
this doesnt necessarily mean anything though as they are most likely getting no data telling them to do anything

if i can HEAR both drives spinning properly when attached to a computer with another ATA/usb adapter, that would be a very good sign
at least i hope


anyway...enough of this...time for bed


thanks all








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> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:57:29 -0700
> To: subjectivity at hotmail.com; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> From: dbarton at pacbell.net
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] OT: how to save a dead Raided Drive?
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> My understanding is that half the data is written to each, and that's how
> you get increased speed.
> As such, I think you are in a very bad position for getting that data back.
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> At 6/26/2009 06:28 PM, Dan Snazelle wrote:
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>>I am asking on this list because I know that many of you have a lot of
>>experience with computers:
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>>tonight i had the worst possible thing happen to my computer
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>>my 3yr old 500 gig lacie ext hard drive died. (and no, i had not backed it
>>up...money for a new drive had been non-existent)
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> dennis.barton:skylab2000[socal]
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