partition table info and mbr

[wim]

extracted from a new Lacie EBD, with seagate branded drives inside (Disk /dev/sdb - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63, sector size=512 - ATA ST3500620AS) although i have also owned an EBD with samsung drives inside which seemed to have the same structure (Disk /dev/sde - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63, sector size=512 - ATA SAMSUNG HD501LJ).

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#1243350225 Disk /dev/sdb - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
 1 : start=       63, size=  2008062, Id=05, E
 5 : start=      126, size=   256914, Id=82, L
 6 : start=   257103, size=    16002, Id=83, L
 7 : start=   273168, size=    16002, Id=83, L
 8 : start=   289233, size=   256977, Id=83, L
 9 : start=   546273, size=  1461852, Id=83, L
 2 : start=  2008125, size=974759940, Id=83, P

disk 2 does not have a partition table. it is all zeros up until 0x1EB80000, where there is an XFS header and the data (partition 2) from disk 1 continues. the disks are spanned (JBOD), not striped (RAID0).

note XFS Marker at 125/0/1.
D Linux 125 0 1 121602 63 58 1951532032
XFS 6.2+ - bitmap version, 999 GB / 930 GiB
This partition ends after the disk limits. (start=2008125, size=1951532032, end=1953540156, disk end=976773168)
the onboard controller makes the 2 drives appear as 1 large 'big disk'.

here is the MBR for disk 1 (first block)

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0000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000080: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000090: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000c0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000100: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000110: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000120: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000130: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000140: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000150: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000170: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000180: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000190: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00001a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00001b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001  ................
00001c0: 0100 05fe 3f7c 3f00 0000 fea3 1e00 0000  ....?|?.........
00001d0: 017d 83fe ffff 3da4 1e00 04a8 193a 0000  .}....=......:..
00001e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00001f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 55aa  ..............U.

as mentioned previously the first block for disk 2 is all zeros.

images for the original OS partitions are available here.

hope this information will be helpful for someone, it certainly would have helped me and saved me from buying a new Lacie during my data recovery from a crashed EBD