i created this array with mdadm ... with 7 devices. then later i added a spare disk. it's always listed one too many in the Total Devices field, and lists a failed drive... any idea what's up? thanks -dean # mdadm --version mdadm - v1.0.1 - 20 May 2002 # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Sat Jan 4 23:37:22 2003 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 720321792 (686.95 GiB 737.65 GB) Device Size : 120053632 (114.49 GiB 122.98 GB) Raid Devices : 7 Total Devices : 9 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Jan 15 23:42:41 2003 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 7 Working Devices : 8 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 5 8 97 5 active sync /dev/sdg1 6 8 113 6 active sync /dev/sdh1 7 8 81 7 /dev/sdf1 UUID : 2fc2f969:e12b7ceb:055fbb9c:4c2ac618 - 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