As it turned out, it was a software (Linux) RAID using XFS. It was a customized Linux distro used on a SoC Power PC platform. Eric On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: > Eric Cope wrote: > > Hello all, > > My friend was running off of a Buffalo NAS, which died. Does anyone know > > how to recover his files from a RAID 5 configuration? > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > > I'm glad you got this fixed up, Eric. > > This is why I don't use hardware raid, and I don't use raid 5. > > Some time ago I managed to recover a 3-drive raid-5 array with 2 > degraded drives. Not fun. That was software raid, fortunately. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Eric Cope http://cope-et-al.com