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I have 4 1.5TB WD disks with Raid-5 in a LS Quad taht the power led flashin 6 times.

 

Is it possible to use a Linux workstation with the same Raid Controller in LS Quad to access the data on the drives ?

 

I need to recover the data I moved into the Raid-5 disks and I can build a linux pc to access the data provides that I can use the same Raid controller !

 

 

This unit uses linux software RAID:

    * When mounting a single disk from a RAID1 array in a Linux machine, you must specify the filesystem type as XFS. If you don't, it won't mount:

root@linuxmachine:~# mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/data
mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member'

    * Specify XFS as the filesystem type with the -t switch:

root@linuxmachine:~# mount -t xfs /dev/sdb4 /mnt/data

    * Then you can see the data:

root@linuxmachine:~# ls /mnt/data
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root           22 Feb 13 18:43 FTPTest1
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root            6 Jan 15 02:39 FTPTest2
drwxrwxrwx   12 root     root         4096 Mar 18 14:36 Share
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root            6 Mar 13 11:52 restricttest










    * The RAID5-capable units all use similar RAID5 methods. The following has been confirmed for Linkstation Quad:

The starting sector of the raid array:

root@linuxmachine# fdisk -l
Device    Boot Start     End       Blocks    Id System
/dev/sda1      63        771119    385528+   83 Linux
/dev/sda2      771120    1044224   136552+   82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3      1044225   312223276 155589526 83 Linux
/dev/sda4      312223277 312576704 176714    83 Linux

    * These are DISK1 partition tables:
          o the /dev/sda1 is for system files (rootfs) which is RAID1.
          o the /dev/sda3 is data area which is: RAID1,5.
          o others are not RAID.
    * T block size: 4096bytes
    * parity rotation: left-symmetric