Re: [9fans] still down

[Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>]

Hope you get if figured out.  This is why Coraid's
raid formats are public infomation.  We even have a
program calle srcat that will copy the blocks out
of a set of disks removed from our equipment.  I hate
to be held hostage by some raid controller.

If you need some new disks so you can dup the old ones
I can send you some.  Just let me know how big and if they
are PATA or SATA.

  bc

geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> You may have noticed that the Bell Labs Plan 9
> servers are still down.  We reloaded the raid array
> controller's firmware, which it was demanding.
> That appears to have been successful, and it seems
> to have retained its configuration in NVRAM
> (though why it lost its firmware is puzzling).
> We're a little nervous about putting the disks back
> into it because these devices have a nasty habit of
> reformatting their disks when you change their configurations,
> and it's hard to know if this one considers its
> configuration to have changed.
> 
> Does anyone else have experience with these?  The model
> naming is a little obscure but it seems to be Maxtronic
> Arena Industrial II.  It takes eight IDE disks and presents
> a single SCSI interface to the host.