One of my very old drive farm servers had an OS fault and can't boot now but I'd like to restore some files from it. I tried booting Ubuntu from a CD, but it couldn't see the drives -- possibly because they're RAIDed together. Is there a good way to get at my files?
The data in question is a series of old genotyping arrays (basically extremely high-res photos and some associated data files). The RAID level is just 1+0, I think. My predecessor's notes say that the system was Debian Sarge, but I think it's actually some version of Xubuntu (the OS was probably upgraded without the notes being changed). I have all the passwords as well as physical access to the system, but I don't know much about the original setup (it was all 'the last guy').
Any help would be appreciated. I don't think the lab would be willing to pay for a hard drive restoration service (16 RAID drives would presumably be fairly expensive), but anything short of that may be fair game.