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by Prohias
Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:15 am
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: RAID5 - 8 disks
Replies: 6
Views: 12403

Re: RAID5 - 8 disks

Hello Sean

My recovery was 100% successful.
I used Left Asynchronous Block order with 128kb blocksize and no offset. Note that 64kb is the default ! (On EX8350)

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BTW. My EX8650 reported two 'dead disk' earlier this year and would not start up.
Disk is marked as dead if it can no longer ...
by Prohias
Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:05 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: RAID5 - 8 disks
Replies: 6
Views: 12403

Re: RAID5 - 8 disks

Never mind my previous post - I figured it out.

From my experience :
- Try to preview mp3 files if you have any. They seemed likely to play even if the settings weren't correct yet.
- If it sounds like the song is chopped up and the pieces plays back in wrong order, try changing the block size ...
by Prohias
Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:12 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: RAID5 - 8 disks
Replies: 6
Views: 12403

Re: RAID5 - 8 disks

I'm waiting for a reply from Promise support. Unfortunatly 24/7 support only meens that you can ASK questions 24/7.

Best so far : Left AsynchronousCapt / 64kb / no offset :
The complete folder/file structure is visible. Not much luck with previews, BUT I managed to play a mp3-file.

Thought that ...
by Prohias
Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:36 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: RAID5 - 8 disks
Replies: 6
Views: 12403

RAID5 - 8 disks

One Promise EX8350 contoller stopped working. The three year warranty gave me a new EX8650 controller.
What they forgot to tell me was that it is not compatible with the old controller :evil:

It seems to me that R-Studio can help me but before I start this quite big operation I'd like to be sure ...