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Accessing files on PowerEdge T420 PERC HDD's
Hello there,
I have a PowerEdge T420 running my business system and we recently had a power failure which caused the T420 power source to die.
Of course, it's times like these we learn that our backups are not being done properly. 😢
I DESPERATELY need to access the files on the HDD's to get the system running again until I fix the server.
There were 2 hdd running on a RAID 1 array, controlled by a PERC H310... is there an easy way I can access these files from another computer?
I have another Dell T140 server with a PERC H330 and when I plugged the drives there, they showed up on the System Setup under the Physical Disk Management menu as "Foreign" disks.... if I import them there, would I loose the files or be able to access them?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!
Origin3k
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May 13th, 2024 14:29
With "import foreign" config you will try to import the RAID konfiguration from the disks into the (Hardware) RAID Card. This is alway necessary when you move phys. DISK from one to another Server or when a HBA needs to be replaced.
Switch between different types or generations of HBA is officially not support. Because H310 and H320 a based on cheap LSI ships which are near you might be lucky.
Regards,
Joerg