From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Subject: Re: transferring RAID-1 drives via sneakernet
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:13:35 +0000
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Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> I'm planning to take some RAID-1 drives out of an old machine
> and plop them into a new machine. Hoping that mdadm assemble
> will magically work. There's no reason it shouldn't work. Right?
> 
> old  [ mdadm v1.9.0 / kernel 2.6.17 / Debian Etch / x86-64 ]
> new [ mdad v2.6.2 / kernel 2.6.22 / Ubuntu 7.10 server ]

I've done it several times.

Does the new machine have a RAID array already?

David