Dear, I have an problem with mdadm based NAS, Unfortunately producer support don't have any interest to solve anything (Unfortunately as usually). What's happens - I created 6 HDD array RAID 5 by standard web interface, because I had an problem with HDD, array was created in order HDD 2,3,4,5,1,6. After appr. 1.5 year one hdd have problem, some chaos to understand which hdd had problem (web interface), when I replaced hdd, array was restore, but in different order of hdd - 2,3,4,5,6,1, hdd 6 and 1 are switch and result - inaccessible array ... unfortunately ... What I have there - better say no comment. My small question is simple - exist some solution for this situation and restore standard work (of course - with (any) data there) ? mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Sat Jun 20 20:14:35 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 7317848000 (6978.84 GiB 7493.48 GB) Used Dev Size : 1463569600 (1395.77 GiB 1498.70 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 6 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Aug 14 14:00:22 2010 State : clean Active Devices : 6 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K UUID : bcb3df8c:c65faf60:784485de:5b9c58ae Events : 0.1040290 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 19 0 active sync /dev/sdb3 1 8 35 1 active sync /dev/sdc3 2 8 51 2 active sync /dev/sdd3 3 8 67 3 active sync /dev/sde3 4 8 83 4 active sync /dev/sdf3 5 8 3 5 active sync /dev/sda3 Original report I don't have, only mdadm.conf - ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3,/dev/sdd3,/dev/sde3,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdf3 mdadm --examine /dev/md0 mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md0. mdadm --examine-bitmap /dev/md0 Filename : /dev/md0 Magic : 6461646d mdadm: invalid bitmap magic 0x6461646d, the bitmap file appears to be corrupted Version : 1310734957 mdadm: unknown bitmap version 1310734957, either the bitmap file is corrupted or you need to upgrade your tools I'll happy for any help. Best regards, Pavel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html