Neil, Thank you very much for your fast reply. >> The problem occurred while resynccing the /dev/md4 RAID1-mirror >> and of course the "master" device was the faulty one. >> The question now is, is someone capable of describing how to get >> this /dev/md4-mirror started so that I can continue copying data >> out of RAID1+0 (dev/md5) mirror ? > > You need to assemble the array before it can run, so maybe: > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md4 --uid=d5c2d1f7:cf7cb245:2d9e7057:097ec133 > /dev/sd* The command: mdadm --assemble /dev/md4 --uuid=d5c2d1f7:cf7cb245:2d9e7057:097ec133 /dev/sdc2 Results: mdadm: /dev/md4 assembled from 0 drives and 1 spare - not enough to start the array. /proc/mdstat: Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md4 : inactive sdc2[2] 0 blocks The thing is that I have no spare-discs available in my system and that "spare" disc _is_ the one that has always been the second mirror of /dev/md4. > then > mdadm --assemble /dev/md5 /dev/md3 /dev/md4 Regards, Tomi Orava - 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