Well, it worked...the data seems to be intact! I just mounted it r/o and the files are there...then did an interactive fsck scan and everything is in order... Thank you both...from myself and about 40 fans of japanese animation from the uao (www.otakuuniversity.org). Jason Pfingstmann, CNA Vice President University of the Anime Otaku - 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