Resolved. My problem was that /dev/sdc did not have a partition table. The filesystem was built directly on the device without any partitions. On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:41, Greg Freemyer wrote:

Does anyone know the naming convention for Perc Raid Sets (ie. /dev/???)

-- Background I have a windows box with an Perc Raid Controller. The Raid controller has 3 'Containers' built from the attached drives.

2 are fine, one is degraded. (Possibly fatally so). Container 3 has valuable data on it, and is not marked as degraded.

The first 2 containers are on SCSI bus 0, the 3rd is on scsi bus 1.

I want to duplicate the container 3 filesystem onto a single large ATA drive before I do any serious maintenance to the box.

I booted the SuSE 8.2 CD into rescue mode and tried dd if=/dev/sda1 dd if=/dev/sdb1

They seem to be working, but getting only the containers I don't care about. (i.e The disk activity lights are not blinking for the disks I care about.)

Unfortunately dd if=/dev/sdc1

is not working, and I'm not sure what else to try.

Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer