Hi Luca. Thanks for getting back with me. Following is the information you asked for. Please let me know if I need to provide anything else. Luca Berra said: > can you try ? > cat /proc/partitions $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 34 0 120060864 hdg 34 1 120060832 hdg1 33 0 120060864 hde 33 1 120060832 hde1 22 0 120060864 hdc 22 1 120060832 hdc1 22 64 120060864 hdd 22 65 120060832 hdd1 3 0 39062500 hda 3 1 40131 hda1 3 2 996030 hda2 3 3 4883760 hda3 3 4 1 hda4 3 5 9767488 hda5 3 6 1461883 hda6 3 7 21912628 hda7 > and > > mdadm --examine /dev/hdX1 > replacing X with each of your drives $ mdadm --examine /dev/hd[dceg]1 mdadm: No super block found on /dev/hdc1 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got 00000000) mdadm: No super block found on /dev/hdd1 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got 00000000) mdadm: No super block found on /dev/hde1 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got 00000000) mdadm: No super block found on /dev/hdg1 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got 00000000) -- Steve - 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