Restoring raid 0

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I have a Velocity Duo (PCI raid card) with two Samsung 850 drives (500gb ea) in a RAID 0 setup in my Mac Pro.

The raid controller seemed to get scrambled and the drive is no longer accessible - Mac is not bootable.

However, using a raid recovery tool (ReclaiMe) I can access the RAID parameters and also the data (files and folders). I can export the data as an .img file.

The question is .. how do I restore this .img to a bootable drive?

I have a new 2TB drive at my disposal.

Should I store the .img file there and then reinitialize the RAID 0 setup on the existing Velocity Duo?

Other options?

lilbiscuit

Posted 2017-08-24T12:45:18.907

Reputation: 141

Your raid card has failed you once and only by luck do you still have your data - are you sure, you want to try the same setup again? – Eugen Rieck – 2017-08-24T12:53:02.327

nope..that's why I asked :) Just need to get this mac booted up ASAP. – lilbiscuit – 2017-08-24T12:54:17.947

Answers

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Put the .img in the new hard disk: img is the disk image. RAID is built above it, splitting img into 2 disks (RAID0).

I think this is enough (usually the img is left bootable).

If it doesn't boot. Check with OF, or check online about emergency disk (or a linux distribution) so that you can make the disk bootable.

Giacomo Catenazzi

Posted 2017-08-24T12:45:18.907

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