Issue Mounting RAID Perc Partition

May 19, 2007

We had a problem on one of our servers and it was running RAID 1 with two 300GB SAS.

When I boot the server I have the following issue,
PXE:E61: Media test failure, check cable

I searched through all the net but couldnt find a solution that helped me.

Now I took one of the HDDs out and installed as slave on another Linux server. One of the HDDs says when I do /sbin/fdisk -l,
no partition table for /dev/sdb (something like that)

The other HDD have all the partition table,

/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb3
/dev/sdb4
/dev/sdb5

The big partition (probably when I have my data) is under /dev/sdb2, although when I try to mount that partition I get the following error,

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Is any command specific for mounting RAID partitions or the HD is gone ?

I really need the data that are inside it.

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