Re: shuffled disks by mistake

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Clements
Max Waterman wrote: I have 6 WD800Jb disk drives. I used 4 of them in a RAID5 (using the whole disk - no partitions) array. I have mixed them all up, and now want to get some data off the array. How best to find out which drives were in the array? put them in a linux box and run "mdadm -E " on e

Re: shuffled disks by mistake

2005-03-10 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:17 +0800, Max Waterman wrote: > Hi, > > I have 6 WD800Jb disk drives. I used 4 of them in a RAID5 (using the > whole disk - no partitions) array. > > I have mixed them all up, and now want to get some data off the array. > > How best to find out which drives were in the

shuffled disks by mistake

2005-03-10 Thread Max Waterman
Hi, I have 6 WD800Jb disk drives. I used 4 of them in a RAID5 (using the whole disk - no partitions) array. I have mixed them all up, and now want to get some data off the array. How best to find out which drives were in the array? Here are the partition tables (obtained using fdisk on OS X): WCA