Ionut Nistor wrote: > I'm using a 2.4.18-ac3 kernel It just dawned on me that this kernel probably does not have the following patch applied: http://lwn.net/Articles/8485/ If that's the case, you may want to move to a later kernel or apply that patch. I believe the patch will fix your issues with the shifting minor numbers causing problems. I did a brief test on SuSE's 2.4.19 kernel, which has this patch applied, and everything worked, even after shifting devices around. -- Paul - 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