Data Recovery from ReiserFS RAID Array?

Ruatha asks: "We've recently had a problem with a ReiserFS RAID-5 array - two of the disks failed and, of course, some of the people using the array didn't have backups of their data...Ontrack have returned the disks because they can do nothing with them due to the FS we used on the array. Does anyone know of a company that can deal with data recovery from a ReiserFS RAID-5 array?"

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quick fix

[austad]

This may or may not work, however, I've successfully recovered data about 10 or 12 times using this method.

Find a working drive of the same model, take the electronics board off of it and swap it onto the bad drive. Typically when I have a drive fail, it's the electronics, not the mechanical portion of it. So far, this has worked every time for me, one was a Quantum Fireball, and the rest were all Seagate SCSI drives (some FCAL and some ultrawide).

If you had two disks fail at the same time, chances are it's the electronics. Once you recover the data, I would take a serious look at your RAID controller and possibly replace it. I had a bad RAID controller that kept frying drives, and once I replaced it I didn't have anymore problems.