OOPS! Did I screw myself with mdadm --create?

I recently had a raid server hang, and after a reset the 1.5TB raid 5 array no longer mounted. Being hasty, I messed around with mdadm commands trying to find out what was going wrong, and in the process I ran "mdadm -C" thinking that it was one of the steps for mounting an existing array. I suspect that this was a fatal error, because now fsck.reiserfs can't find the superblock on the array!

I had an /etc/mdadm.conf file lying around, and I happened to compare the uuid in the /etc/mdadm.conf file and on one of the partitions. They did not match!!!

Did I forever ruin my raid array? Is there a way to recover my reiserfs superblock and the original array data?

Thanks,
Dave

I recently had a raid server hang, and after a reset the 1.5TB raid 5 array no longer mounted. Being hasty, I messed around with mdadm commands trying to find out what was going wrong, and in the process I ran "mdadm -C" thinking that it was one of the steps for mounting an existing array. I suspect that this was a fatal error, because now fsck.reiserfs can't find the superblock on the array!

I know how to create a new superblock for reiserfs, and rebuild the tree, but that will only work if the data is still readable. Should I go ahead and try this, or should I first try to reassemble my raid to find the correct configuration?

I had an /etc/mdadm.conf file lying around, and I happened to compare the uuid in the /etc/mdadm.conf file and on one of the partitions. They did not match!!!

Did I forever ruin my raid array? Is there a way to recover my reiserfs superblock and the original array data?

Thanks,
Dave