Re: mvsas issues

[David Rees]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom<tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just got a Marvell SAS card, And I've been trying to copy one set of disks
> over to another before one of the drives dies for good...

Have you tried using one of the rescue oriented versions of dd to make
a copy of the failing disk?  Then copy the image to a good disk and
recreate your array (do it in read-only mode!) and see what you can
recover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29#Recovery-oriented_variants_of_dd

-Dave
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