RAID fails to mount

[David Roth weiss]

If Apple Disk Utility sees it you’re most likely in luck. Disk Warrior will probably fix it. If you don’t have Disk Warrior, do not pass go, do not collect 200 bucks, go run to your local Mac dealer and get it immediately.

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[Steve Eisen]

You might even be able to download it from alsoft’s website

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[Chris Gorman]

I own disk warrior and use it frequently. However, I should have mentioned that disk warrior is not seeing this raid.

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[David Roth weiss]

[chris gorman] “I should have mentioned that disk warrior is not seeing this raid. “

That’s not good Chris.

Could be that the power supply has gone south and is suddenly not providing the necessary juice. Is the power supply internal or external?

David Roth Weiss
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[Chris Gorman]

New info: I checked it again after multiple tries with disk warrior. This time it sees something it calls “unknown disk”, and says “directory cannot be rebuilt due to disk hardware failure (-36, 2268).

However, maybe it just means that the raid configuration/formatting or something is broken.

When I click on the hardward test, s.m.a.r.t. diagnostics in dw, it says the drive is functioning normally.

Other info in response to your comment about power supply – all the other drives in the same enclosure are working fine. I’m not sure which “power supply” you mean.

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[David Roth weiss]

Again, it does not sound good. It seems pretty clear that one of your drives went south.

Sorry, but for the most part, unless you have loads of dough to invest with a service who specializes in this type of thing, you will need to consider yourself hosed.

$1500 minimum is the going rate for companies who remove the platters and save the data onboard. For a two drive raid that cost is probably higher and the chance of success probably not nearly as good.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Sachin Desai]

there is a software called r-studio which will recover all the data from raid-0 (hardware /software both), raid -5 or any other… i accidently deleted my software raid-0 but i got everything back in just few minutes. try it. even it is bad or formated it recovers data successfully.. only thing you’ll have to give is correct order of you hdd and nos. if you do not know you’ll have to spen a little time maipulating the combinations..

good luck

[Chris Gorman]

Thanks, that’s great info. I found a download for the mac version 1.3. Not sure if that’s the latest version.

I’ll try it after I get done with my current project, in a few weeks. I don’t want to risk installing anything right now when I have an important project in process.

PowerPC G5 DP2.3, 4GB DDR SDRAM, ATI X800XT, OSX.4.11, QT 7.5.5, FCStudio2, FCP 6.0.5 Sonnet 5 Bay SATA (RAID or JBOD as needed), ACD 23″ & Sony NTSC Monitor via Matrox v.1
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