While Having a coffee, The cat decided to dissemble a soft raid by playing with the sata cable. Having replaced the cable, still coming up as one disk short. Looked at: http://www.ducea.com/2009/03/08/mdadm-cheat-sheet/ mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/sdb1 Is this correct (check twice, run once) for some reason the F18 Live CD calls the raid /dev/md124 # cat /proc/mdstat ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=25e07f11:ef68c858:29f9be4e:6bf24034 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md124 : active raid1 sdd1[0] 976759672 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_] bitmap: 4/8 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk # mdadm --detail /dev/md124 /dev/md124: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Sat May 11 11:29:04 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 976759672 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 976759672 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Sun May 19 02:39:14 2013 State : active, degraded Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Name : yumser.frankly3d.home:3 (local to host yumser.frankly3d.home) UUID : 25e07f11:ef68c858:29f9be4e:6bf24034 Events : 7931 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 1 0 0 1 removed -- Regards, Frank - I check for new mail app. 20min www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org