Linux hostname.lan 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 #1 Thu Nov 18 15:10:10 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz stepping 02 Motherboard: P4B533-E Onboard Promise controller - disabled! Installed: PCI Promis SATA 150 TX2Plus. 2 HDD SATA Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200G After updating: kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.39 mdadm-1.6.0-2 # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/md0 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/vg0/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/vg0/usr_cvsroot /usr/cvsroot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/vg0/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/vg0/swap swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda DEVICE partitions MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md1 super-minor=1 ARRAY /dev/md0 super-minor=0 md0 - raid1 for / (ext3) md1 - raid1 for lvm (see fstab) When system is running I power off second HDD (/dev/sdb) and my system almost freeze!!! After that I power down my system, plug on power to second HDD and system start. There are no error messages in /var/log/messages about failing /dev/sdb, no error mail from mdadm! [root@cvs ~]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 198113472 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 1020032 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> Three months ago I tested FC2 with 2 ATA HDD, and when I powered off second HDD, system was fine, I got message from mdadm about failing HDD and my system was still fine. But FC3 almost freeze. System normally boots from sdb when sda unplugged. Can someone help me?