Hi,

I take it that the drive IS really dead, and not just marked offline by the RAID controller. If that is the case, you're SOL.

In case the RAID controller just THINKS the drive is offline (defective), depending on the controller and the signature it uses to mark a drive offline, it could be possible to resurrect your RAID.

I once had a 10 x 9GB RAID0 (stripe) set mark 3 drives offline, because of a power failure. It was quite frustrating, that when the power came back on, there was 90GB less data - the stripe set wouldn't mount. I called A*****c technical support (makers of SCSI and RAID controllers) and asked what to do, but was told there was nothing to do.

Being kinda desperate, I used a non RAID controller and good old Norton Diskedit, and managed to figure out what the differences between the offline and OK drives was (one byte in the first sector, quite easy actually).

After changing that byte, the stripe set mounted nicely ...

But if the drive's dead, so's yer data. All you got is every second cluster of data, which is useless.