[SWLUG] Failed Raid 1

[Alan Pope]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:48:32AM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> My Parents have windows[1] installed on a RAID 1 (mirror)  volume.
> The raid controller is built into the motherboard and presents the two
> disks as a single volume to the operating system.
> 

Likely not "proper" hardware RAID but "fakeraid" software RAID mostly 
implemented as a Windows driver.

> 2. Attach new drives to raid controller in same configuration as before failure.
> 2.1 Boot knoppix, try and mount raid volume

Make sure it has dmraid to be able to be able to mount the fakeraid volume.

> 3. Any other tools, techniques or tips that might help?
> 

In the future don't use fakeraid? Maybe simplify things by having everything 
on one disk and just backup to the other one regularly. 

Cheers,
Al.