On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Dragon wrote:

while nobody is answering i suggest that there is no better way like 
phil told, or my i wrong?

Have you looked throught the recent archives for all the other threads 
about people prematurely doing --create, and the factors that affect this? 
(data offset, order, superblock version etc)

Please if you have mdadm --examine from before you destroyed the 
original superblocks then that might help.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se