I have two 1TB drives from 2011 that I need to get the data off of ASAP.
Both of these drives are working and were configured as RAID 0 under a Windows Vista machine. Both drives are plugged into my Fedora machine, and I need to mount them as a RAID device so I can pull data off.
The first drive is shown as /dev/sda and the second drive is /dev/sdb. The machine I was using configured some part of the RAID array in BIOS, where my current machine cannot perform such an operation.
Is there a way to mount these drives on my machine to access the data?
By running the command "sudo mdadm -E /dev/sda /dev/sdb" this is the output:
mdadm: /dev/sda is not attached to Intel(R) RAID controller.
mdadm: /dev/sda is not attached to Intel(R) RAID controller.
mdadm: /dev/sdb is not attached to Intel(R) RAID controller.
mdadm: /dev/sdb is not attached to Intel(R) RAID controller.
/dev/sda:
Magic : Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig.
Version : 1.0.00
Orig Family : 004c6f77
Family : 004c6f77
Generation : 000002cd
Attributes : All supported
UUID : 6dcf9662:d3c699ac:3b3da1b4:011a761c
Checksum : 0c68413e correct
MPB Sectors : 1
Disks : 2
RAID Devices : 1
[3Play]:
UUID : 094c270d:4dd4aead:f6cc4ab7:e3a2fa3b
RAID Level : 0
Members : 2
Slots : [UU]
Failed disk : none
This Slot : ?
Sector Size : 512
Array Size : 3907039232 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Per Dev Size : 1953519880 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Sector Offset : 0
Num Stripes : 7630936
Chunk Size : 128 KiB
Reserved : 0
Migrate State : idle
Map State : normal
Dirty State : clean
RWH Policy : off
Disk00 Serial : 9VP0XDQA
State : active
Id : 00040000
Usable Size : 1953514766 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Disk01 Serial : 9VPCVD99
State : active
Id : 00050000
Usable Size : 1953514766 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
/dev/sdb:
Magic : Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig.
Version : 1.0.00
Orig Family : 004c6f77
Family : 004c6f77
Generation : 000002cd
Attributes : All supported
UUID : 6dcf9662:d3c699ac:3b3da1b4:011a761c
Checksum : 0c68413e correct
MPB Sectors : 1
Disks : 2
RAID Devices : 1
[3Play]:
UUID : 094c270d:4dd4aead:f6cc4ab7:e3a2fa3b
RAID Level : 0
Members : 2
Slots : [UU]
Failed disk : none
This Slot : ?
Sector Size : 512
Array Size : 3907039232 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Per Dev Size : 1953519880 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Sector Offset : 0
Num Stripes : 7630936
Chunk Size : 128 KiB
Reserved : 0
Migrate State : idle
Map State : normal
Dirty State : clean
RWH Policy : off
Disk00 Serial : 9VP0XDQA
State : active
Id : 00040000
Usable Size : 1953514766 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Disk01 Serial : 9VPCVD99
State : active
Id : 00050000
Usable Size : 1953514766 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
As you can see by the output, the drives are both alive, and the previous raid configuration is recognized, however I cannot mount this.
After issuing the command "sudo IMSM_NO_PLATFORM=1 mdadm --assemble --verbose /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb" I get this output:
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0
mdadm: /dev/sda is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot -1.
mdadm: /dev/sdb is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot -1.
mdadm: added /dev/sdb to /dev/md0 as -1
mdadm: added /dev/sda to /dev/md0 as -1
mdadm: Container /dev/md0 has been assembled with 2 drives
and finally after trying to mount it with "sudo mount /dev/md0 /mnt", I get the following output:
mount: /mnt: can't read superblock on /dev/md0.
after using the GUI tool gnome-disks, /dev/md0 shows up but says "Block device is empty"
I am probably going about mounting these incorrectly, and I need help.
