[Noris]

Hi all,

I have a mountain of scsi discs mounted in two disc arrays. Each array has 3 columns and 6 rows of hvd 9gb discs. The back of each array has three terminated scsi ports marked DF SCSI 2, 3 and 4, respectively, which correlates to external ports on an onyx rack.

Unfortunately I cannot find any information on these arrays, which are marked Stone + Wire 3150, but I tend to think that they are not raid arrays, but rather are just each providing three strings of 6 scsi discs.

One disc from an array has as a single sgi partition on it which is of type unknown (ie not xfs).

Can anyone shed light on what this setup is likely to be and how I am best proceeding with data recovery? It would be good to image everything using dd or something and reconstruct the filesystems on a single high capacity drive but I'm wondering whether this will be possible. From what I now know of xfs it seems likely that each disc may be configured as an allocation group of a larger filesystem, and I am guessing there is likely to be one xfs filesystem per string of scsi discs. Can an xfs filesystem span multiple discs and/or scsi channels? Is there any hope of imaging these seperately then rebuilding the xfs on a single disc?

Update: it looks like this might not be xfs after all... the boxes have flame 1 and flame 2 written on them, and searching for flame irix brought up references to stonefs.

Is there any hope, or even a point, in trying to access this data from linux?