Comment 32 for bug 666577

Honestly, I don't know why or how it worked, but it did. I used the --examine --scan to see if it would even recognize the array. Once I realized it recognized it, I told it to scan and run the array. It told me there were no super blocks, but it loaded it right up and I was able to mount my array for use in the disk manager. Unfortunately, I was forced to use this method to actually recover my data from my degraded (and corrupted) RAID 5 array after my bios decided it didn't want to recognize it as existing anymore. But yeah, apparently mdadm can recognize and run degraded fakeraid Level 5 arrays as well.
So, the answer to your question is no; I didn't have it create the array, I had it take the two working drives from my 3 drive array and run the arrays it found on them. We might look at this as a viable solution if it continues to work right.

Would you like a screenshot or a verbose log of the examine results produced by mdadm as verification?