Disks undetectable after being connected to Highpoint Rocketraid controller
by cahlfors from LinuxQuestions.org on (#52XEC)
Dear forum,
I used to have an old NAS server (regular Ubuntu) with a Rocketraid controller. There were eight disks configured as JBOD. Using software raid, I had put RAID5 and LVM on them. It worked great until the mobo gave up.
Now I want to reuse the disks. I have no hope of retrieving the information of them, but they don't even show up when connected to a computer. The Rocketraid controller is long out of support, so can't use it (no compatible drivers). When attached to a mobo SATA port, a disk briefly shows a HEX-looking code during POST. In BIOS, it shows up with an empty line - not "[none]" as the other non-occupied ports. There is *something* there.
It is as if the Rocketraid JBOD "initialization" back then has made them into something that is not interpreted as disks on other systems. Does anyone know anything about this and what to do to get them usable again?
Thanks,
cahlfors
I used to have an old NAS server (regular Ubuntu) with a Rocketraid controller. There were eight disks configured as JBOD. Using software raid, I had put RAID5 and LVM on them. It worked great until the mobo gave up.
Now I want to reuse the disks. I have no hope of retrieving the information of them, but they don't even show up when connected to a computer. The Rocketraid controller is long out of support, so can't use it (no compatible drivers). When attached to a mobo SATA port, a disk briefly shows a HEX-looking code during POST. In BIOS, it shows up with an empty line - not "[none]" as the other non-occupied ports. There is *something* there.
It is as if the Rocketraid JBOD "initialization" back then has made them into something that is not interpreted as disks on other systems. Does anyone know anything about this and what to do to get them usable again?
Thanks,
cahlfors