Hi Neil, It appears to me as if there might be a bug in the multipath code since it is impossible to activate the multipath device properly. It doesn't matter if one uses raidtools or mdadm. Every time i try to activate the mp devices, the system complains about not being able to access the drive. The result is a mp device with just one path. Hardware configuration: Sun Fire v65x with two LSI Logic FC-HBA's connected to two disjunct switched fabrics. Fabric switches are four Brocade Silkwork 3600 and storage devices are two Adv. Unibyte JBODs. Software configuration: Debian GNU/Linux (unstable) with kernel 2.6.4. Two disks are setup up as individual mp devices with a RAID1 on top of the two mp devices. I don't have the exact error message at the moment, but can supply it in case it is needed. Regards, Dominik Kubla - 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