On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:25:33PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Now, had the exact same disk configuration in my old system. If plug in > those disks into the 3rd and 4th SATA ports, and boot, what will happen? Okay, so, what happens is: the old (newly added to this system on drives now named sdc and sdd) partitions are ignored and can be made temporarily into /dev/md2 (and /dev/md3 using) sudo /sbin/mdadm --assemble /dev/md2 --uuid=(the proper uuid) and the uuid can be found with sudo /sbin/mdadm --examine --scan (Thanks for your answers, Les!) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>