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Mounting split raid drive as normal drive via USB

I wish to take one drive from a raid 1 array and mount it on another machine via USB and copy data from it.

Plugging the drive in gets it detected as a scsi drive.

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1  *          1          13      104391  fd  Linux raid autodetect

/dev/sda2              14      36481  292929210  fd  Linux raid autodetect

Mounting /dev/sda1 works fine but /dev/sda2 gives errors.

Code:

[root@c3 /]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /hd

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,

      or too many mounted file systems

[root@c3 /]#

Am I doing something wrong?

raid 1 is mirroring so you will therefore not be able to access the second disk and only the first one. why do you need to mount the second disk in the array anyway? is there any reason you can't use the first one seeing as it should have the same data on it as the second one.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pats

Hmm.. I thought the two drives were identical as opposed to raid 0 where they are striped.

Anyway, makes no difference which drive from the array I try to mount on the second machine, the second partition is unavailable.

William.