Dan, You hit the nail on the head, mdadm 3.2.6 is able to assemble and get the arrays online, now just going through the permutations to try to get recoverable data but at this point recovery is normal and non-intel specific. Thanks to everyone who helped! chris On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Dan Williams <djbw@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM, chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> any idea why it wont assemble? I thought even if data was corrupt I >> should be able to force it to assemble and look at it to determine if >> it is corrupt or in tact > > A bug in mdadm was introduced shortly after the "missing" support was > added. Looks like you need 3.2.6. > > -- > Dan -- 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