Dell 6800 Raid

[GIKUYUU]

Hi,

i have a dell server 6800 power edge, it has 6 drives the array controller card recently had its battery loose off power or something close to that as it lost the array configuration in the cache. Now the card is giving an error about the battery error and having lost all the cache information.

the array configuration information that was there before is lost, the array is no longer there so all the data is lost all the disks are in ready state independent disks.

my question:

i don't know the raid that was there before

how can i restore the array configurations from the disks to have the previous arrays restored without loosing data as there can be more than many options on the previous sate raid from 0 - 5

This assuming there is a replica array card or the raid information is kept on a disk

kindly assist i will be glad

regards,

[hddguy]

Attempts to reinitialise the array, or repalce the controller or even removal of any disks can result in data loss.

At this point you need to evaluate the value of the data, any unsuccessful attempts to recreate the array will almost surely result in data loss.

[GIKUYUU]

what raid re constructor tools can i use to reconstruct the RAID

[scratchy]

It would depend on the RAID .. is it RAID5, RAID0/1, etc etc? ... If you need the data talk to a data recovery company. There are a few in Africa and quite a few in SA.

Here is one in SA : www.imperative.co.za

Remember if you mess with it yourseslf, there is a chance that you will lost the data. A DR company will know exactly what to do.