On 2003-01-25 at 15:47:50+1100 Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > Very odd. What you do should have the desired result, but obviously > doesn't. Thanks for your response. Alas, the problem isn't with mdadm. :( This is the problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82815 (I wasn't noticing the Oops in the voluminous output from the md driver.) > You didn't say which kernel you are running - 2.4 or 2.5.xx Red Hat's latest errata kernel for 8.0 (2.4.18-19.8.0). > I assume there aren't any other RAID arrays present. Is this > correct (or did you edit the output of /proc/mdstat). Nope, no other arrays. I was looking at the notes for 2.4.21-pre3, and I see there are a couple of md fixes from you in there. Unless you have a better idea, I'll try backporting drivers/md/md.c from 2.4.21-pre3 to Red Hat's 2.4.18-19.8.0 and give that whirl... -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA - 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