On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 21:58 -0400, William Warren wrote: > I am curious about something. I have a friend that made a software raid > 1 partition across a 250 gig 7200 rpm drive and an 80 gig 7200 rpm hard > disk drive. he shut the system down normally to clean it out and when > it came back up he gets the following: > a superblock on /dev/md0 failed > > would mdadm --assemble --force fix it or lead to more damage? ---- don't know...RAID 1 (mirror) or RAID 0 (stripe) ? Craig