[CS-FSLUG] Dead Proliant 6500

[Alan Marsh]

A local church/private school has a Proliant 6500 server that was running
Windows 2000. I have been trying to get them to buy a new server and let
me put some open source OS on it. They only use it as a file server with a
max of 5 concurrent users.

It is configured with one 9 gig SCSI drive with RAID 0 for the operating
system and six 9 gig SCSI drives in RAID 5 arrangement.

(Disclaimer: I've installed Linux and BSD on tons of consumer level PC's,
but never messed with RAID or anything like that.)

The single drive with the operating system failed (has yellow light). RAID
0 so that whole machine is down. I don't have any spare drives.

I have a Iomega NAS 100d that I want to use as a fileserver (band-aid)
while I get the new server. I just want to get the data off the box and to
another location.

I booted with a Knoppix disk just fine (also Puppy and others), but how
can I mount the RAID 5 thing and access the files?

Any help would be appreciated, dmesg follows:

000:b8000000)
Detected 200.028 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 294912
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz loglevel=3
PMEDIA=idecd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1163976k/1179648k available (2414k kernel code, 14844k reserved,
797k data, 176k init, 262144k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 400.59 BogoMIPS
(lpj=2002967)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0000f3ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000
00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
CPU: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an
initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1230k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0070, last bus=10
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS support was not detected.
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 0000:00:19.0: secondary bus 00
PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 0000:00:1a.0: secondary bus 03
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Device 0000:00:0f.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:00:14.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:00:19.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:00:1a.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: 51000000-510fffff
  PREFETCH window: a7000000-a7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
  IO window: 5000-5fff
  MEM window: b7d00000-b7dfffff
  PREFETCH window: a8000000-afffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:03:01.0
  IO window: c000-cfff
  MEM window: c6f00000-c6ffffff
  PREFETCH window: 51200000-512fffff
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
squashfs: version 3.1 (2006/08/19) Phillip Lougher
NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W].
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 13824K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: CD-ROM CDU571-Q, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
libata version 2.00 loaded.
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
EISA: Probing bus 0 at 0000:00:0f.0
EISA: Mainboard CPQ1565 detected.
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
hda: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Registering unionfs 20060916-2203
unionfs: debugging is not enabled
fuse init (API version 7.7)
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input1
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
sym0: <875> rev 0x4 at pci 0000:00:09.0 irq 9
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.2.3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0d.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:0d.0. Please try
using pci=biosirq.
 RAM (2048 kB) at 0xxa5000000, Cirrus Logic chipset on PCI bus
cirrusfb: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v2.0-pre2
 RAM (2048 kB) at 0xxa7000000, Cirrus Logic chipset on PCI bus
cirrusfb: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v2.0-pre2
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0)
cpqarray: Device 0xae10 has been found at bus 2 dev 0 func 0
cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (SMART-2/P)
cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=5051040
cpqarray ida/c0d1: blksz=512 nr_blks=5467200
cpqarray ida/c0d2: blksz=512 nr_blks=7246080
cpqarray ida/c0d3: blksz=512 nr_blks=88854240
 ida/c0d0:<4>Fatal error on ida/c0d0
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d0, logical block 0
Fatal error on ida/c0d0
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d0, logical block 0
Fatal error on ida/c0d0
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d0, logical block 0
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
Fatal error on ida/c0d0
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d0, logical block 0
 unable to read partition table
 ida/c0d1:<4>Fatal error on ida/c0d1
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d1, logical block 0
Fatal error on ida/c0d1
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d1, logical block 0
Fatal error on ida/c0d1
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d1, logical block 0
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
Fatal error on ida/c0d1
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d1, logical block 0
 unable to read partition table
 ida/c0d2:<4>Fatal error on ida/c0d2
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d2, logical block 0
Fatal error on ida/c0d2
Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d2, logical block 0
Fatal error on ida/c0d2
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
Fatal error on ida/c0d2
 unable to read partition table
 ida/c0d3: unknown partition table
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ThunderLAN driver v1.15
TLAN: eth0 irq=15, io=c000, Compaq Netelligent Dual 10/100 TX PCI UTP,
Rev. 16
TLAN: eth1 irq= 5, io=c010, Compaq Netelligent Dual 10/100 TX PCI UTP,
Rev. 16
TLAN: 2 devices installed, PCI: 2  EISA: 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.

That's it! Thanks