I upgraded to 2.6.9-2-k7 on Debian. My raid array does not seem to be working: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : inactive unused devices: <none> my raidtab file is: # cat /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/hda raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc raid-disk 1 when i probe w/ mdstat: # mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Wed Jan 5 20:14:11 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Device Size : 40146560 (38.28 GiB 41.11 GB) Raid Disks : 2 Total Disks : 0 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistance : Superblock is persistant Update Time : Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 State : dirty, no-errors Active Drives : 0 Working Drives : 0 Failed Drives : 0 Spare Drives : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDisk State 0 0 0 -1 removed 1 0 0 -1 removed and when i try to mkraid i get: # mkraid /dev/md0 handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/hda, 40146624kB, raid superblock at 40146560kB /dev/hda appears to be already part of a raid array -- use -f to force the destruction of the old superblock mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues. and the kern.log says: Jan 5 20:14:11 trader kernel: md: could not bd_claim hda. Jan 5 20:14:11 trader kernel: md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 do i have any hope of fixing this? if so, how?! thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Zero Crossings, Inc. -- Embedded and Digital Signal Processing Systems http://www.zerocrossings.com/ - 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