Re: Please help! How to reconstitute array (drive order problem)?

These drives came up something like hda, hdi, hdh, hdk, hdm, hdn, hdp,

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drive.  These drives were hda, hdi, and hdk (I only know this because

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the drives' new names were hde, hdg, and hdo.

So your drives are now hde, hdg, hdo, hdh, hdm, hdn, hdp.  Something like
  mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 hd[egohmnp]
should do the trick.

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BTW, speaking of mdadm, with no config file, the commands
  mdadm --assemble /dev/md0
  mdadm --assemble --scan /dev/md0
  mdadm --assemble --scan /dev/md0 /dev/hd[egohmnp]
all segfault.  They're probably not sensible commands to run, but it
should give an error in that case.

-jim