On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Steven Ihde wrote: > > I didn't see any other answers, so I'll take a shot... I did get one other private answer, from Andreas Arens. I thought I'd take a moment and thank both of you for your assitance with this. The suggestions were correct and were exactly what I needed to get the RAID5 back on-line and all the data was intact. Thank you VERY much. I suspect I'd have figured it out eventually, but not only did this make it much simpler, it reassured me that I'm not the only one fool enough to have such a problem. > I advise you to get and install mdadm -- it has worked fine for me and > mdadm seems to be the overwhelming preference of the posters to this > list and thus easier to get support for. I did install mdadm, and it did the trick. It seems to be much simpler. I'll also be able to retire my Perl script in favor of monitor mode. Thanks again! -- Louis Erickson - wwonko@rdwarf.com - http://www.rdwarf.com/~wwonko/ In Pocataligo, Georgia, it is a violation for a woman over 200 pounds and attired in shorts to pilot or ride in an airplane. - 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