RAID 1 Controller failure (HELP!)

well based on that i think there may be a 25% chance that what I'm going to say makes any sence, if not ignore me in favor of someone that knows what they are talking about.

by ext2/3 i think they mean the format of the drive, like ntfs or fat32. 2 and 3 are different versions and the format is primarily used by linux. If using the proper version of linux that supports that format you should be able to mount them and access the data.

however this is where my guessing ends, perhaps someone else knows of a way to determine the format of the drive with out damaging the data. and whatversion of linux would be able to access that.

i think one of my friends dose this with one of his drives in fedora, but nto sure it is the same thing. maybe a live cd of fedora 11 would be a starting point. sorry i can't be more helpful but this is one of those thingk i kind of heard about from a buddy no personal experiance. he says it is realy hard to access it from windows and that is just for read not write access.

please note that there is a good chance that i'm thinking of something completly different then this.

PS. have you contacted the enclosure manufacturer to find out what formatting it uses or they may have directions for this type of thing.
 
Find the same raid controller and plug the drive into there.

or as they suggested there try a live linux cd. That guys said he had no luck with it though :/
 
Since it is a RAID1 and just the controller died, just break the RAID and connect a single drive to a non-raid controller.

Almost every RAID1 set I have played with is able to boot a single drive on a non-raid controller cause all RAID1 does is duplicated data on the drives, there is no special parity data or splitting files across drives for RAID0.
 
When are people going to learn that RAID is not a backup...

(I know, not helpful, but hopefully there's a lesson to be learned here.)
 
You are boned.
The end.
RAID1 does not mean there is not another layer between the hardware and the file system. It means the exact opposite. Just because the file system on the array is supported does not mean you can read it.
 
managed to save my ass by using a program to read an ext3 partition in windows, copied the files to my windows drive, then transferred them to a shared folder at work... that'll do for now :/
 
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