On Tuesday April 30, ross@willow.seitz.com wrote: > > # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 > > > > I get: > > > > mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hdg1: No such device or address > > mdadm: create aborted > > Hmmm, funny - as it turns out, mdadm actually created the array and > started it with /dev/hdg1 failed. It just said it didn't. That surprises me? Are you in a position to try it again and see? If so, what version of mdadm? 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