I have 3 old SCSI HDDs that were in a hardware RAID, I don’t have the RAID controller anymore but I have imaged them with DD and a SCSI PCI card I have.
Is there any way to assemble this array in software on Linux? I just want to get the data off so read only is fine.
Running blkid on the drive shows it as an Adaptec RAID member.
I believe the drives are in RAID 5.

EDIT: I got it working, but I had to use windows. I installed ReclaiMe Free RAID Recovery to find the RAID parameters then used the UFS explorer Pro free trial to image the array to a virtual disk. After a quick (actual quite long) chkdsk I managed to mount the NTFS file system on the array

EDIT2: There seem to be a lot of missing files, I don’t think there was anything important on here anyway

EDIT3: wow, the found.000 folder is huge. I guess the recovery failed, or the array got pretty badly corrupted on the ~10 years in storage.

  • @SomeoneSomewhere
    2•10 months ago

    I think you may just be able to run mdadm --discover and follow your nose. I haven’t gone digging enough to find good documentation.

    • Thomas DouwesOP
      1•10 months ago

      I could not find a --discover parameter, but I tried --assemble --scan and it couldn’t find a super block.
      It feels a bit frustrating to have all the data here but no way to access it, maybe a tool will pop up at some point if I hoard the disk images.
      Thanks for the suggestion though.