It is better but it still doesn't work: $ mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 --run /dev/sdc1 mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md1: Input/output error mdadm: Not enough devices to start the array. 2013/6/6 Aleh Suprunovich <a.suprunovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 05:47:33PM +0300, Nicolas Michel wrote: >> Hello guys, >> >> I need some help to recover some data that resides on a disk that was >> part of an array in an Iomega device. I connected the disk with a >> SATA->USB connector to my computer. An mdadm --examine give me theses >> informations: >> >> What I cannot achieve is to create a newly empty array and insert that >> existing disk inside of it, so I can backup the data elsewhere. >> >> I tried with mdadm --assemble /dev/sdc1 but it says: >> mdadm: device /dev/sdc1 exists but is not an md array. >> >> I someone have an idea? It would be really really great :) >> > > You need to run something like 'mdadm --assemble /dev/md127 --run /dev/sdc1' > where md127 is a name of md device not used in your system. -- Nicolas MICHEL -- 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