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...ing each drive partition (sdb1, sdc1 etc) instead of the drives (sdb, sdc etc) meant the raid would assembled and mount just dandy. My problem is that when I issue "sudo mdadm -E --scan" I get the following results: ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 UUID=fde94900:3f3f3bf6:e368bf24:bd0fce41 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 UUID=3a2f1919:52f73b40:e368bf24:bd0fce41 These entries aren't in mdadm.conf but mdadm keeps picking up my first mistake and tries to make a raid out of my four drives and not the four partitions (the bottom line is the four UUIDs for the partitions on e...