From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E72C433F5 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1379584AbiAUQ7R (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:59:17 -0500 Received: from www18.qth.com ([69.16.238.59]:43480 "EHLO www18.qth.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1382096AbiAUQ6W (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:58:22 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 613 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:58:21 EST Received: from c-73-207-192-158.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([73.207.192.158]:32986 helo=justpickone.org) by www18.qth.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nAx56-00041L-Ry for linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:48:08 -0600 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:48:06 -0500 From: David T-G To: Linux RAID Subject: hardware recovery and RAID5 services Message-ID: <20220121164804.GE14596@justpickone.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - www18.qth.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - justpickone.org X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: www18.qth.com: authenticated_id: dmail@justpickone.org X-Authenticated-Sender: www18.qth.com: dmail@justpickone.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Hi, all -- After the holidays and the hand surgery and the other "important" projects, I am finally able to circle back to my 4 x 4T RAID5 disk problem. I've been promised that I can get 30 - 60 minutes each night to do more poking and send responses ... but that was a week ago and here is my first chance to sit down, so I don't know how much I believe it! Has anyone worked with any recovery companies in the US? One of the 4T devices failed, possibly just because of motor issues, and one is throwing read errors, while two are just fine. This would probably be easy for the right folks to fix, of course at some cost; the question is are there any folks that you might recommend and how much is that cost. I'd appreciate any input anyone can provide ... Meanwhile, I'm also refreshing myself and going through all of the steps to be able to ask good questions and present necessary information in case I do indeed get to scrape my knuckles against this stuff enough to recover the data. Thanks again & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt