> > What do "mdadm --detail /dev/md0" and "mdadm --examine /dev/hda1" > report? > > Regards, > Martin When I did --detail it showed the array having 2 devices, the first of which was faulty (the bottom of the screen). Unfortunately, I can't do the --examine. This morning I got frustrated and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda & dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc & I'm going to start over with clean drives Thanks Jay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html