i have a lacie raid 1 that the box died and lacie says i cannot buy a new box since they are not backwards compatable.

so i would like to plug in one of the drives into a computer running ubuntu 12.04. when i do ubuntu sees the array but can not access it.

i have run testdisk and have not got drive readable.

since it is raid 1 mirrored drives i should be able to read the data some how?

thank you for your time

peter

We'd have to know more about this so called raid you had. Many of them are phoney raid or faux raid. A true hardware raid might have allowed you to mount a single disk if it were set to mirror.

here is the online manual for the raid is was set as a raid 1 but the box died

sorry wrong url here is the right one

http://www.lacie.com/download/datash...network_en.pdf

http://www.lacie.com/download/manual/2bigNetwork_en.pdf

As a NAS, hopefully (real) hardware RAID. What does "fdisk -l" and "parted -l" think of it (use sudo on Ubuntu) ?.

verified B-A-C-K-U-P??? no i was under the belief that with a raid 1 or safe mode my data would be safe and with a dead box i thought i could just plug the drives in another box, but, no it does not work with lacie raids

are you saying "sudo fdisk -1" or "sudo parted -l" will make the drive readable in ubuntu?

Nope.
I (we) are merely looking for evidence as to why you have been unable to read it so far.

My sigline is a sigline - not aimed (specifically) at you.

Ahhh - I (now) maybe see what may have prompted that outburst.
Ignore my sigline on this occasion - those commands are harmless (see the manpages). They merely list the disk/partition layout if considered sane (in a Linux context).
Those are lower case ells (for list), not the digit one.

Replace x with the letter assigned to the drive if you have normally 1 drive in your computer and now have added the drive out your nas then it is probably sdb.
The following command gives info over the drive and the raid status.
If you have determined which device the raid is on you can assemble the raid.
if all goes well you can mount the array. And access your files in /mnt/lacie.

Lacie uses mdraid (linux software raid) so if you have the space in your ubuntu machine you can use it as your nas.

On a side note:
RAID != BACKUP

http://serverfault.com/questions/288...d-not-a-backup
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/0...ackup-solution

Just my 2 cents. We have a couple Lacie drives at work. The power supply provides a5 and 12 volts. If one of them goes out, it can seem like the drives went bad.

Also, this isn't a networking question. I'm moving it to Linux Hardware.

i ran through the commands and did not get to far so i ran thought again and here are the text from terminal i tried variations of the commands but i did not work any better
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peter@lonovo:~$ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
MBR Magic : aa55
Partition[0] : 1349397 sectors at 642663 (type fd)
------------------------------------------------------------------
peter@lonovo:~$ sudo mdadm --assemble --run /dev/md0 /dev/sdb
mdadm: Cannot assemble mbr metadata on /dev/sdb
mdadm: /dev/sdb has no superblock - assembly aborted
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
peter@lonovo:~$ sudo mdadm --assemble --run /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
peter@lonovo:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/lacie
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/lacie': File exists
--------------------------------------------------------------------
peter@lonovo:~$ sudo mount /dev/md0 /mnt/lacie
mount: special device /dev/md0 does not exist
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peter@lonovo:~$

could you first post the result of the following commands:

yes druuna i am slowly learning
and i understand your frustration having told people a thousand times and we still dont learn

one person buys 2 of any array uses one and the other sits in a box waiting for hardware failure

another person has 2) 1 tbyte usb drives, copies all his data to the drives and takes one to his mothers house and even if he has a fire, flood or robbery he still has a copy, and once a week he made a backup and goes and visits his mother and swops out the usb drive. cheap and easy and you get to visit your mother.

i got a great price on an acer server and it has hard drive redunducy (raid 1)but i plan on backing up all data on a usb drive. i dont know if making a trip to the bank once a week to swop out hard drives into my safety deposit box is over kill but im thinking about it

if i havent thanked everyone for all their help for a while i will do it now
thank you for all your time

peter@lonovo:~$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
unused devices: <none>
--------------------------------------------------------------

peter@lonovo:~$ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sd*
[sudo] password for peter:
/dev/sda:
MBR Magic : aa55
Partition[0] : 10063872 sectors at 2048 (type 27)
Partition[1] : 130914937 sectors at 10065920 (type 07)
Partition[2] : 15329282 sectors at 140982270 (type 05)
/dev/sda1:
MBR Magic : aa55
Partition[0] : 1917848077 sectors at 6579571 (type 70)
Partition[1] : 1818575915 sectors at 1953251627 (type 43)
Partition[2] : 10 sectors at 225735265 (type 72)
Partition[3] : 51890 sectors at 2642411520 (type 00)
/dev/sda2:
MBR Magic : aa55
Partition[0] : 1917848077 sectors at 6579571 (type 70)
Partition[1] : 1818575915 sectors at 1953251627 (type 43)
Partition[2] : 10 sectors at 225735265 (type 72)
Partition[3] : 51890 sectors at 2642411520 (type 00)
/dev/sda3:
MBR Magic : aa55
Partition[0] : 14413824 sectors at 2 (type 83)
Partition[1] : 914807 sectors at 14414475 (type 05)
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda5.
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda6.
/dev/sdb:
MBR Magic : aa55
Partition[0] : 1349397 sectors at 642663 (type fd)
/dev/sdb1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000
Creation Time : Thu May 24 06:20:16 2012
Raid Level : -unknown-
Raid Devices : 0
Total Devices : 1
Preferred Minor : 2

Update Time : Thu May 24 06:25:13 2012
State : active
Active Devices : 0
Working Devices : 1
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Checksum : 48a2c4da - correct
Events : 1


Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 8 17 0 spare /dev/sdb1

0 0 8 17 0 spare /dev/sdb1
peter@lonovo:~$