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On Feb 17, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Anton Nikiforov wrote:

> Raid1 for the OS (2*140GB drives)
> Raid5 for the data (3*140GB drives)
> And one 140GB drive as a hot spare disk
> LSI FW version is G119 from Aug 27 2004
>
> I'm sure that disks are still containing the information, but i do  
> not know how to restore the LSI data on disks to boot properly or  
> mount this drive somewhere on different system to get the data.

If you know the configuration you made (you did keep notes, right?)  
just re-created it but DO NOT run initialize on the array.  As long  
as the drives are not damaged, it will just work.

You need to be sure to get the RAID level and blocksize and disk  
ordering correct.