On 23/04/17 12:12, Patrik Dahlström wrote: > At least I now know in what order that I should assemble my original 5 > drives: > sda, sdb, sdd, sdc, sde > It would only be logical for the new drive (sdf) to be last in that list. And, as the raid wiki tells you, download lspci and run that. That will hopefully tell us a lot about what's left of the various headers on your disks. My worry is that Permute_Array will have tried a whole bunch of "mdadm --create" variants and totally trashed your original headers. Cheers, Wol -- 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