AFAIK, you don't even need to preserve your mdadm.conf file for it to work-- assuming you've got the MD superblocks on the partitions.  In order to do any maintenance, however, you generally need mdadm.conf, so you should keep it anyway.

Here's one way to check, however: boot knoppix.  If it detects your raid and you're able to use it, FC5 will probably work with it.

~John

On 3/29/06, David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, all,

I'm planning on reformatting/upgrading my current desktop box to Fedora
Core 5 and making it into a file/print/scanner server instead. I've been
using FC5 at work, and I'm reasonably certain of its stability at this
point. For those wondering, I'm switching to my laptop running FC 5 as
my desktop machine - not to worry, I've not converted back to Windows!

Attached to the box right now is a four-drive, IEEE1394 enclosure that's
in RAID 5. I would obviously prefer _not_ to lose the ~500gb of stuff on
it. I assume that all I need to do is preserve my mdadm.conf across the
upgrade, and then plug the array back in, right? I'd like to be extra
sure about this...

-DMZ

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