From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Please Help!!! Raid 5 reshape failed!
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:34:45 +1100
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In-Reply-To: message from mangaskahn on Friday December 14
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On Friday December 14, mangaskahn@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> gentoofs ~#mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sdf
> mdadm: /dev/md1 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array

Try adding "--run".  or maybe "--force".

NeilBrown