From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44FBA98C.8020209@coraid.com> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 00:20:28 -0400 From: Brantley Coile User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] still down References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: adf1dac4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.