From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Help on Recovering a Corrupted raid5 Partition Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:11:37 -0400 Message-ID: <466AA709.1080800@tmr.com> References: <11032621.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <11032621.post@talk.nabble.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: phyros Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids phyros wrote: > Hey guys, I'd like some help recovering from a corrupted software Raid-5 > setup. The raid-5 setup is on an embedded linux NAS (the Buffalo Terastation > Pro, if anyone's familiar with it), so I can't really give all that many > details as to the distro, version, setup, etc. All of that is hidden and > proprietary. The tech support told me that all I can do is scrap my data, > but this is stupid... they're manufacturing a redundant data server; they > should know better and have some corruption-recovery procedure in place. > Welcome to capitalism. > If they are running Linux and distributing bunaries they have to give you the source under GPL. That won't give you all the setup and proprietary stuff they hang on it, or solve your immediate problem, but useful to know. Be polite but persistent asking for source, on the kernel and any GPL application tools. Now, what exactly IS your problem? What isn't working to get you looking at this in the first place. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979