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by nakedrabbit
19 Jun 2013, 06:55
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: RAID member lost, OSX
Replies: 4
Views: 3450

Re: RAID member lost, OSX

Final update. I gave up. No answers here, and no idea where to go next. I burned it all down and restored from backups - took several weeks.

Lots of dead ends.
by nakedrabbit
03 Apr 2013, 00:30
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: RAID member lost, OSX
Replies: 4
Views: 3450

Re: RAID member lost, OSX

An update -

I've gone back and forth with HighPoint, the RAID card manufacturer, for almost a month now. I'm despondent.

The RAID has four elements. Disks 1 and 4 were the ones reporting bad blocks. They were cloned. They show up in Testdisk through the HighPoint RocketRaid 2314 card. Disks 2 and ...
by nakedrabbit
22 Mar 2013, 18:58
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: RAID member lost, OSX
Replies: 4
Views: 3450

Re: RAID member lost, OSX

Thanks for the quick reply!

Yes, the Mac Pro is an Intel machine. Generally people will say "PowerMac" or "G5" when they mean an old PPC machine. And yes, I've seen testdisk identify the EFI GPT partition, so all seems well.

I have not changed any geometry. I only suggested that because several ...
by nakedrabbit
22 Mar 2013, 08:06
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: RAID member lost, OSX
Replies: 4
Views: 3450

RAID member lost, OSX

Hello, maybe you can help me with my problem. I sure hope so!

I have a 4.5Tb four disk RAID5 in an enclosure driven by a HighPoint RocketRAID 2314 card on a 2010 Mac Pro running OSX 10.6. Recently the volume spontaneously dismounted. At HighPoint's suggestion I deleted the RAID and set it up again ...