Hello. Can anyone tell me why failed devices is is appearing as "-1" ? Thanks. /sbin/mdadm -D /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Fri Dec 13 20:27:49 2002 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 521984 (509.75 MiB 534.51 MB) Device Size : 521984 (509.75 MiB 534.51 MB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Jul 1 17:03:36 2004 State : dirty Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : -1 Spare Devices : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3 6 0 active sync /dev/hda6 1 22 6 1 active sync /dev/hdc6 UUID : 255a65a8:5e8e0a35:0aef765e:6f307c50 Events : 0.196 - 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