Actually I have 2 arrays and both have a device more than they should. # mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Wed Jul 30 21:49:33 2003 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 18474496 (17.62 GiB 18.92 GB) Device Size : 9237248 (8.81 GiB 9.46 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Oct 8 23:53:50 2003 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3 3 0 active sync /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 1 33 2 1 active sync /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 2 34 2 2 active sync /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part2 UUID : 7aa04659:9100ac93:b3808182:f11c0b78 Events : 0.36 rob wrote: > that does look strange. But I've been using software raid for just a > couple weeks, so don't know a lot about it. > > here is same command on our computer. i have only 2 devices. looks > like > something is up with yours. do you have another md device you can > check > the command on? > > > root@fbc5:~ # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: > Version : 00.90.00 > Creation Time : Tue Sep 30 15:22:45 2003 > Raid Level : raid1 > Array Size : 8337600 (7.95 GiB 8.54 GB) > Device Size : 8337600 (7.95 GiB 8.54 GB) > Raid Devices : 2 > Total Devices : 2 > Preferred Minor : 0 > Persistence : Superblock is persistent > > Update Time : Fri Oct 10 08:37:34 2003 > State : dirty, no-errors > Active Devices : 2 > Working Devices : 2 > Failed Devices : 0 > Spare Devices : 0 > > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 6 0 active sync > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part6 > 1 8 22 1 active sync > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/part6 > UUID : 131c021d:7bc1e937:1bea7923:d7eed283 > Events : 0.54 > - 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