Steven Haigh writes: > Quoting ajulvestad <ajulvestad at n4f.no>: > >> Johnny Hughes writes: >> >>> ajulvestad wrote: >>>> Ok, this is the case: I've got two raid-5 arrays with software raid, >>>> both with three disks. >>>> Setup: >>>> md0 has hdb2, hdd1 and sda1 >>>> md1 has hdb5, hdd3 and sda3 > *snip* >> Thank you for the URL, but I have already seen the howto. Running >> mdadm --assemble --force only provides the message that there is only >> one disk available. So what I'm looking for is a way to tell mdadm >> exactly what devices to use for the array. > > Silly question, but can the system see sda, hdb & hdd? > > can you see anything from "fdisk -l /dev/sda" - the same for hdb and hdd? Yes, the partitions are all there. The files on the URL are all from the system at the moment. And fdisk is listing all the partitions as well.