LOST RAID 5 DISK CONFIGURATION

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It may take you a while, but it's going to be trial and error.




"Jaye" <bmwm7il@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have 6 drives (one hot spare) from a RAID 5 config on a DELL
> poweredge 4400 with a PERC3 controller. I stupidly removed the
> drives, set them aside and when I picked them up to put them in a box,
> I forgot what order they were in. Does anyone know how to find out
> what order they were in?
>
> Can the drive ID information be read from the drives? Software
> perhaps?
>
> Can I simply put them back in the controler and have it recognise them
> correctly?
>
> I really need to recover this data and am not sure what to do as there
> are no backups.
>
> If I put them back in the wrong order, will it rebuild the Array and
> erase my data?
>
> Any help would be great appreciated!
>
> Jaye