Sorry about putting the wrong email address on my initial email. In reply to Donghui Wen, Yes, it was partitioned correctly. In reply to Bernd Schubert, I have installed mdadm, and am looking around for some pointers. I am unsure what is going on still. mdadm reports the follownig for /dev/md1: /dev/md1: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Sun Mar 16 21:42:44 2003 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 6144704 (5.86 GiB 6.29 GB) Device Size : 6144704 (5.86 GiB 6.29 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Sep 1 19:48:11 2003 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3 65 0 active sync /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 1 0 0 0 sync 2 22 1 2 active /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 UUID : 0e953226:03c91d46:cd00d52f:83a1334e Events : 0.413 /proc/mdstat reports the following: md1 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1[2] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1[0] 6144704 blocks [2/2] [U_] I'll play around with it some more, but it anyone recognizes these symptoms, please reply. -- Michael Welsh Duggan (mwd@cert.org) - 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