Lost Internal Stripped ATA Raid on Panther Upgrade?

[Mrvideo]

I had virtually the same happen to me. My Quicksilver 2002 dual 1.0 GHz MAC had a SIIG ATA-133 ATA card hostin two 250 GB drives. Upon loading Panther, pffffst! No more drives!

I eventually got tired of trying to get SIIG to own up and I started my quest with Serial ATA drives.

Here’s hoping Tiger doesn’t kill those FirmTek SATA adapters.

[P. B.]

Same – SIIG Card. I wrote them – SIIG – and they have no response. So no luck? 400 gig lost. Just seemed like a time when you wouldnt lose anything. And backing up such a big drive. Updated drivers, firmware. Is there a cheap utility out there that can recover data? I know nothing has been erased.

[Mitchji]

[Prashant Bhargava] “I had the previous system archived on the main drive upon install of Panther. Should I restore that? Or is there some extension that I can copy over? “

Hi,

I would try booting off the archived partition. If the archive is not on a dedicated partition I would put it on a dedicated partition so that you can boot off it without wiping out the new Panther partition.

Next time clone the orginal partition to a dedicated partition and spend a few minutes testing on the clone before doing your upgrade.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mrvideo]

[Prashant Bhargava] ” Is there a cheap utility out there that can recover data? I know nothing has been erased.

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Regrettably, there is no way to reassemble that data as it was parsed out between two volumes. If you reinstall 10.2 and don’t touch your hardware , those mounted volumes should come alive.

I was able to do that to get the most valuable data off but actually when I removed the SIIG card and installed the FirmTek SATA card and made those two drive a RAID 0, the entire volume of data came up!