Hi!

I'm trying to recover from a double disk failure in a linux md-raid5 environment.
One drive is gone (makes grinding/clicking noises and spins down after a while, I have no hope for that one), the other one developed many bad blocks in smartctl and then finally disappeared during RAID rebuild. I had to poweroff the host system, after that the drive was no longer accessible/detectible by BIOS.

My first idea was to look at the serial port, to get the disk accessible one more time and ddrescue the data off it to a blank identical new drive (the one intendes for raid rebuild). I have this cable https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Dev ... 0Cable.pdf which should work, right?

Putty at the serial port with 38400 baud does not show or respond to anything, I also tried the good drive, no serial communication there, either. Shorting tx/rx on the cable enables me to see my typing, so my cable, driver and putty seems to work.

Could somebody give me a hint?

Bye,
Raipat