> > You need to "reinsert" it manually. It's very well explained > in this Howto: > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html > See the section 6.3 to know how to add the new drive to the array. > > I tested this 3 days ago :) There has to be a better way than adding manually. We ran RAID1 on 2.2 kernels for years, and anybody, could replace a drive And it would be added automagically... Maybe adding "auto" to mdadm.conf and better describing the devices. Gerald