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From: seth vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: shuffled disks by mistake
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:40:20 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:17 +0800, Max Waterman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have 6 WD800Jb disk drives. I used 4 of them in a RAID5 (using the 
> whole disk - no partitions) array.
> 
> I have mixed them all up, and now want to get some data off the array.
> 
> How best to find out which drives were in the array?
> 
> Here are the partition tables (obtained using fdisk on OS X):

put the drives in a linux machine and run:

mdadm -E /dev/drive#

it should tell you if there is an md superblock on that system.

-sv