From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Clements Subject: Re: shuffled disks by mistake Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:39:30 -0500 Message-ID: <42305C22.7070406@steeleye.com> References: <423056F1.2020403@fastmail.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <423056F1.2020403@fastmail.co.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: mwaterman@jingmei.org Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Max Waterman wrote: > 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? put them in a linux box and run "mdadm -E " on each disk -- that will tell you which ones have superblocks and all the details of those superblocks -- Paul