NWFS filesystem support in FreeBSD

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Thu Jul 24 14:00:45 UTC 2008


> VOL2: volume (which is on a RAID5 in the PV220S). I think this is the latest 
> in a long line of problems with the 220S, there's many annoyed users around 
> these parts who have had problems with them).
>
> In short, I can't use Netware to either mount or VRepair the damaged volume, 
> so I have the 4 disk RAID5 set which I can't attach to any other controller 
> (this is the only PERC3/DC I have, which is based on an LSI Logic controller, 
> all the other RAID controllers I have in my Dells are PERC3/Di, which are 
> based on Adaptec controllers and can't recognise the LSI Logic array). I was

you've got the punishment for using expensive proprietary software and 
hardware instead of cheap open source software without any extra 
hardware...

> hoping that maybe Linux or Unix/BSD would have enough NWFS code to be able to 
> attach the volume directly and treat it as a local filesystem rather than 
> being transported across the network via NCP.

you have to seek for recovery software for netware volume.

if you are sure (or almost) that it's RAID problem i think i can help you 
but mail priv.


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