On Thursday March 14, gody@master.slon.net wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > > Hi ! > > Perhaps boot sequence of raid related thing would be informative: Yes, thankyou for the extra detail. I hadn't even thought of looking through the autodetect stuff. However it hasn't helped:-( I still cannot find anything that would cause cat /proc/mdstat to hang. It must be that one of the semaphores is down when it should be up, but I cannot find any path that would leave a semaphore down. I have even tried to duplicate your results. The only difference that I can tell between my setup and yours is that I am using SCSI instead of IDE and that shouldn't matter. I don't have the root filesystem on any of these md devices either (I don't know if you do) but again, that shouldn't matter. Is there anything else at all unusual about your setup? A you using an initramdisk or loading anything as modules or have any other patches or anything like that? Thanks, NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html