On Thursday July 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't know the original order of the array before all the problems started. > > Is there a way to determine the original order?
No, unless you have some old kernel logs of the last time it assembled the array properly. The one thing that "--create" does destroy is the information about any previous array that the drives were a part of. > > The order that --detail is showing now is the order that appeared after > issuing the command is it is in the email. (ie: a b c d) Odd. I cannot reproduce it. I suggest you try different arrangements (of the 3 good drives and the word 'missing') until you find one that 'fsck -n' likes. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/