Without an expensive hardware duplicator, is there program can access a SAS RAID controller and clone or create image from a single SAS drive as a physical drive?

While creating image from each SAS hard drives of a crashed RAID by using another computer and SAS card. No programs can see the SAS drive unless you reconfigure the drive and create a logical drive. But the reconfiguration will change and erase some data on the drive and make the RAID reconstruction more difficult.
I believe there are some special programs or methods can access the SAS controller and the SAS drive without reconfiguration.

Has anyone any good ideas?

depends on the SAS type and also the condition
there are many good and useless controllers for SAS

all depends on the problem

i suggest to contact dr.kiev here

good luck

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Hi,

That's because you're using a SAS RAID controller. Use a SAS HBA controller, and you can hook up the SAS drives individually without the need to initialize them before imaging.

Depending on your SAS controller card it can still be done as you will need to present your disk to the operating system configred as a pass through or generally a JBOD.

On some SAS cards this can only be done via the software that is supplied with the card. If done correctly with the software your drive will not be affected and the drive can then be imaged with your software of choice depending on what you are trying to overcome, bad blocks etc

Good luck