KNOCK ON WOOD I got my RAID5 up, built and sync'd and everything. I don't quite remember exactly what I did, because I have gotten less and less sleep and steadily lost more and more sanity/memory as the week has passed, but I fixed it. The WD utility didn't find anything (or fix anything) and I nearly killed all my data (well, almost nearly) but after I took a torch to all but one member of my system partition RAID (HDA was my problem, so I had to break it off my system mirror) I rebuilt every RAID from the ground up. It took forever to do, and the devil is in the details (which I don't recall at all) but once done, it didn't take long to see that this fixed my problem. Still, I sat up and watched it build and build and build just to make sure my RAID goblin didn't pack up and move to another spot. I want to thank everyone for their help. This was a very trying and tedious experience and I tried my best not to be a pest. I hope to stick around and help others as they come by, because I definitely owe it to the list. But, first, I think I'll sleep all weekend. - 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