reconstructing PM3334UW raid?

[mcarro]

In short: old PM3334UW controller with 3 9.1 Gb disks in RAID 5. All disks fail at once (!!!!) after five years with few troubles. The DPT manager program does shows red flags everywhere, and does not offer a rebuild option. Suspecting of a problem in the disk case failure we unplugged the SCSI discs one by one trying to get to a degraded state, thus isolating the faulty tray, to no avail.

Assuming the data is still there, is there any way (and hope) to makie a new array without deleting (or touching it in the least possible) the existent data, whatever it is?

Thanks a lot for all and any help.

 

[tylan]

Depending on the BIOS of the card you may be able to "fake out the card". Some of the DPT cards have hidden options such as "make optimal". I think its alt+f10+o, then you highlight each drive, and its on one of the menus.

There is also a "no build" option, but I can't remember how to do it. Check adaptec's site.

 

[tylan]

here's the answer ID: 3473