Hello, I try to use Raid 1 software on a Linux Debian 3.0 (kernel 2.4). I've no problems to mount my /boot partition on /dev/md1 device and my /usr partition on /dev/md2 device, no problems to reboot. On boot when Debian system try to mount the root filesystem on /dev/md0 (/dev/sdb3 is raid-disk and /dev/sda3 is failed-disk), I obtain this message : "fsck.ext3 : invalid argument while trying to open /dev/md0. The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contain an ext2 filesystem then the superblock is corrupt and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock. e2fsck -b 8193 <device> fsck failed. Please repair manually." I ran "fsck /dev/md0" and bellow the result : "Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/hda. The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct filesystem" . I tried with mke2fs -b 4096 -R stride=8 /dev/md0 and other values, I've always the same problem when I reboot. Have you got an idea of this problem ? In advance, thank you. David - 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