We have been discussing the love affair I have with stale drives in a RAID five array and how best to determine if in fact one exists. I explained how the NTFS file system data is normally laid out and the fact that the old and new data, as well as how long the drive […]
Analyzing RAID parity
Last time I discussed how to find the RAID data offset for a SNAP OS 4.x RAID handler. To put it briefly it was just a simple matter of finding Cylinder Group zero on the first drive in the array and back tracking 48 sectors. Once the RAID data offset is established we can plug […]
RAID Configuration and Parity Check
The function set for the inaugural offering of RAID Diagnostic Toolkit is very basic. This post will explain how to choose a set of ‘streams’ to build a ‘RAID set’. Initially the software does not have any options for stripe size, raid type, meta data offsets, so on and so forth. For the ‘parity check’ […]
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