Analyzing RAID parity
July 23, 2008 by Dick Correa
Filed under File Systems Explained, RAID Recovery Explained, SNAP Server File System
Last time I discussed how to find the RAID data offset for a SNAP OS 4.x RAID handler. To put it briefly it was just a simple matter of finding Cylinder Group zero on the first drive in the array and back tracking 48 sectors. Once the RAID data offset...
[Read more...]Finding SNAP OS 4.x RAID Data Offset
July 21, 2008 by Dick Correa
Filed under SNAP Server File System
If you are in this business long enough you will see everything, or will you? Two weeks ago I received a SNAP RAID OS 4.x for recovery. I have done a lot of these and I am pretty familiar with the data offsets, how the drives are setup, and where...
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