Hi Phil Below, please find the output of the mdadm --examine on the 4 drive's second partitions. Apologies for omitting that in the first e-mail. Appreciate your help. Regards /dev/sda2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 7cdbaa07:ebe66d1b:e9ffe775:cc34485e Creation Time : Wed Sep 19 18:30:28 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 485762944 (463.26 GiB 497.42 GB) Array Size : 1457288832 (1389.78 GiB 1492.26 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Tue Apr 25 08:11:59 2000 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 6e7a32c7 - correct Events : 140493 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2 0 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 3 3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2 /dev/sdb2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 7cdbaa07:ebe66d1b:e9ffe775:cc34485e Creation Time : Wed Sep 19 18:30:28 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 485762944 (463.26 GiB 497.42 GB) Array Size : 1457288832 (1389.78 GiB 1492.26 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Tue Apr 25 08:11:59 2000 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 6e7a3291 - correct Events : 140493 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 0 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 3 3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2 /dev/sdc2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 7cdbaa07:ebe66d1b:e9ffe775:cc34485e Creation Time : Wed Sep 19 18:30:28 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 485762944 (463.26 GiB 497.42 GB) Array Size : 1457288832 (1389.78 GiB 1492.26 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Tue Apr 25 08:11:59 2000 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 6e7a32b5 - correct Events : 140493 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 0 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 3 3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2 /dev/sdd2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 7cdbaa07:ebe66d1b:e9ffe775:cc34485e Creation Time : Wed Sep 19 18:30:28 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 485762944 (463.26 GiB 497.42 GB) Array Size : 1457288832 (1389.78 GiB 1492.26 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Tue Apr 25 11:16:28 2000 State : clean Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 2 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 6e7a5e3b - correct Events : 140520 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed 3 3 0 0 3 faulty removed On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/22/2013 02:02 PM, P Agenbag wrote: >> 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? > > The "mdadm --examine" info you gave is clearly for the NAS boot > volume--it is only 1/2 GB--and would be expected to be raid1. > > Please take a closer look at your partition tables.... > > Share them here if you can't get further, and include "mdadm --examine" > from all other partitions that have raid superblocks. > > Phil > > -- > 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 -- 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