on 5-20-2009 9:34 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: >> Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in >> when removed from the snap server? > The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc, > but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that matter? >> If you fail with the original drives, you might render the array >> unrecoverable. >> > dd is a good idea. I'll dd these disks and try with the images. > If you DD the entire drive, here is a howto I found for mounting the partition you want from the image. http://www.nerdparadise.com/tech/linux/diskbackup/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090520/1a4078ee/attachment-0005.sig>