Hi List I have a D-Link DNS345 NAS which I configured as RAID5 + spare with 4x 500GB Seagate SATA drives. I suspect a power surge caused the NAS to suddenly lose the volume. All 4 drives checked out OK when doing a SMART test on the NAS itself. I proceeded to build all 4 drives into a CentOS server, but was unable to mount the RAID5 - error is always "not enough drives". I followed some advise in archives, and did some mdadm -- examines, and echo them below - what I don't understand is why the --examine picks them up as RAID1. Is there anything I can do to re-build this array? Appreciate any help/advise. Regards /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 17888794:50a497c7:f853c57d:313558dc Creation Time : Sat Sep 21 11:19:13 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Used Dev Size : 524224 (512.02 MiB 536.81 MB) Array Size : 524224 (512.02 MiB 536.81 MB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Sun Sep 22 12:20:23 2013 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : df65b6a0 - correct Events : 6 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 8 1 3 active sync /dev/sda1 0 0 8 17 0 active sync /dev/sdb1 1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 3 8 1 3 active sync /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 17888794:50a497c7:f853c57d:313558dc Creation Time : Sat Sep 21 11:19:13 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Used Dev Size : 524224 (512.02 MiB 536.81 MB) Array Size : 524224 (512.02 MiB 536.81 MB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Sun Sep 22 12:20:23 2013 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : df65b6aa - correct Events : 6 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 17 0 active sync /dev/sdb1 0 0 8 17 0 active sync /dev/sdb1 1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 3 8 1 3 active sync /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 17888794:50a497c7:f853c57d:313558dc Creation Time : Sat Sep 21 11:19:13 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Used Dev Size : 524224 (512.02 MiB 536.81 MB) Array Size : 524224 (512.02 MiB 536.81 MB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Sun Sep 22 12:20:23 2013 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : df65b6be - correct Events : 6 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 0 0 8 17 0 active sync /dev/sdb1 1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 3 8 1 3 active sync /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 17888794:50a497c7:f853c57d:313558dc Creation Time : Sat Sep 21 11:19:13 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Used Dev Size : 524224 (512.02 MiB 536.81 MB) Array Size : 524224 (512.02 MiB 536.81 MB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Sun Sep 22 12:20:23 2013 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : df65b6cc - correct Events : 6 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 0 0 8 17 0 active sync /dev/sdb1 1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 3 8 1 3 active sync /dev/sda1 -- 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