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bigcitymike2 · 06-17-2006, 01:44 PM

Thanks for the reply.

I was up late posting and I did not make it too clear. I'm aware of the hardware limits. Really as should anybody that spent any time reading here. You guys answer that question way too often.

All I had were 200's so that's what went in.

All drives are still in their orig location. I have not swapped any of them with new drives or otherwise. According to a snap PDF I d/l 10018 is drive 4. The drive behind the led's and the power button. I did remove the connections and re connect but thats all. I did that per the service manual. It specifically states to if there is no amber disk light lit. Which there is not.

Here is a LINK to the image.

So does anyone know how the data recovery people do it?

Here is just a few links. They all mention SNAP servers or even go as far to say it's a specialty of theirs:

http://www.ontrack.com/special/0903drnews.aspx

(Snap server drives must be moved to Intel machine) this is interesting..

http://www.datarecoveryclinic.com/de...d_recovery.htm

(Our success rate on Snap and PowerVault is nearly 100% as long as the proper steps are taken. Dell support is often too quick to initialize arrays.)

http://www.dtidata.com/dell_snap_server-recovery.asp

(The RAID Engineers at dtidata.com have the expertise to recovery data and write custom software on the fly to fit your recovery situation. Yielding the best results and highest recovery rates for loss of multiple drives or botched rebuild failures using in-house custom software configured and written on the fly to fit your data loss situation.)

And then there these guys that seems to be Hollywood's answer to a crash..
http://www.drivesavers.com/why_drive...commended.html

They all make some rather bold claim. And sure anyone can, but allot of them refer to snap server specifically.

06-17-2006, 01:44 PM	#4
bigcitymike2 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: usa Posts: 5	Re: Recover broken 4100 raid (4 drives). Thanks for the reply. I was up late posting and I did not make it too clear. I'm aware of the hardware limits. Really as should anybody that spent any time reading here. You guys answer that question way too often. All I had were 200's so that's what went in. All drives are still in their orig location. I have not swapped any of them with new drives or otherwise. According to a snap PDF I d/l 10018 is drive 4. The drive behind the led's and the power button. I did remove the connections and re connect but thats all. I did that per the service manual. It specifically states to if there is no amber disk light lit. Which there is not. Here is a LINK to the image. So does anyone know how the data recovery people do it? Here is just a few links. They all mention SNAP servers or even go as far to say it's a specialty of theirs: http://www.ontrack.com/special/0903drnews.aspx (Snap server drives must be moved to Intel machine) this is interesting.. http://www.datarecoveryclinic.com/de...d_recovery.htm (Our success rate on Snap and PowerVault is nearly 100% as long as the proper steps are taken. Dell support is often too quick to initialize arrays.) http://www.dtidata.com/dell_snap_server-recovery.asp (The RAID Engineers at dtidata.com have the expertise to recovery data and write custom software on the fly to fit your recovery situation. Yielding the best results and highest recovery rates for loss of multiple drives or botched rebuild failures using in-house custom software configured and written on the fly to fit your data loss situation.) And then there these guys that seems to be Hollywood's answer to a crash.. http://www.drivesavers.com/why_drive...commended.html They all make some rather bold claim. And sure anyone can, but allot of them refer to snap server specifically.