diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index df24adcba81ae324f271a296c67ed185115b1618..346120002cfaa9eaeb75ba5c9ed7fb29df259b6c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
 	   debconf-get-selections
 	 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
 	   given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
+	 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
+	   -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
+	   (Thanks to John Hallam).
 
 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
     backupninja changes
diff --git a/handlers/sys.in b/handlers/sys.in
index 9e6343f79b8de792889b0a65ba4bbd7365a5cb11..cf4d77e756263e9097cd8b5419745e15ba1cbc3c 100755
--- a/handlers/sys.in
+++ b/handlers/sys.in
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ STATUS="Gathering information about your ide drivers:"
 catiffile "/proc/ide"
 
 STATUS="Gathering information about your bus:"
-catifexec lspci
+catifexec "/usr/bin/lspci"
 catiffile "/proc/bus"
 
 echo
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ STATUS="Collecting information from /etc/fstab:"
 catiffile "/etc/fstab"
 
 STATUS="Collecting disk partition information:"
-catifexec "fdisk -l"
+catifexec "/sbin/fdisk -l"
 
 STATUS="Checking mounted file systems (mount) "
 catifexec "/bin/mount"
@@ -410,6 +410,9 @@ catiffile "/etc/raidtab"
 STATUS="Collecting Software RAID information (/etc/mdadm.conf)"
 catiffile "/etc/mdadm.conf"
 
+STATUS="Collecting Software RAID information (/sbin/mdadm -Q)"
+catifexec "/sbin/mdadm" "-Q" "--detail" '/dev/md?*'
+
 STATUS="Collecting Automount information (auto.master)"
 catiffile "/etc/auto.master"