Smart raid array controller b120i config lost, drive not mountable

HorstvanGrass — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:33:03 GMT

I recently has a issue with my server, and had to reboot. After reboot the smart raid controller b120i from HP lost its config, and did not found any configured raid. I could only create a new raid1 which probably would erase all my data.

Now I'm trying to mount on another machine the drives from this failed raid. The drive is recognized but I could not mount it. Below are the steps I've done. Is there a way to reconfigure the lost raid or to mount the drive?

mdadm --assemble --run --force /dev/md0 /dev/sda3 return mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda3: No such file or directory When I try mdadm --assemble --run --force /dev/md0 /dev/sda3 it returns mdadm: /dev/sda is busy - skipping

fdisk -l has following output

Disk /dev/sda: 3,64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Disk model: MB4000GCWLV     
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: ABF234AC-AA0E-4503-9D47-4CB545FE0074

Device       Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1     2048       4095       2048    1M BIOS boot
/dev/sda2     4096    2101247    2097152    1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda3  2101248 7814035455 7811934208  3,6T Linux LVM

I don't really know why there is a microsoft partition, since I'm using a pure linux OS. The strange part is that mdadm --examine /dev/sda found a valid superblock for the drive sda but not for the partition sda3

/dev/sda:
          Magic : a92b4efc
        Version : 1.0
    Feature Map : 0x1
     Array UUID : 9397a1dd:3a50d858:797a0e7a:2da3d34e
           Name : any:0
  Creation Time : Thu Aug 13 16:04:09 2020
     Raid Level : raid1
   Raid Devices : 2

 Avail Dev Size : 7814037128 sectors (3.64 TiB 4.00 TB)
     Array Size : 3907018432 KiB (3.64 TiB 4.00 TB)
  Used Dev Size : 7814036864 sectors (3.64 TiB 4.00 TB)
   Super Offset : 7814037152 sectors
   Unused Space : before=0 sectors, after=264 sectors
          State : clean
    Device UUID : f0d22188:c82b36d7:f0d666db:cb911a6c

Internal Bitmap : -24 sectors from superblock
    Update Time : Wed Oct 25 20:50:51 2023
  Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset -8 sectors
       Checksum : c39dfc43 - correct
         Events : 649938


   Device Role : Active device 0
   Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)

Re: Smart raid array controller b120i config lost, drive not mountable

Suman_1978 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:02:45 GMT

Hi,

I am not sure which server model you have, but here is the guide for mdadm.
Here are some forum posts outside of HPE. Link1, Link2.

NOTE: It’s important to keep data backup before performing this activity.
Data integrity is customer responsibility. HPE recommends having data backup frequently and before performing any activity so that it can be restored during disaster recovery.

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