Hi, I've just spent a couple of hours sorting out my server after it, for an unknown reason, threw a wobbly and froze. One of the stranger aspects of this is that once I got it more-or-less working, I found that the raid5 array on the server was being switched to readonly mode very early on in the init process (about when RedHat nash starts): "md: md2 switched to readonly mode" or something similar. dmesg output shows that all 3 arrays (2xraid1, 1xraid5) were constructed properly, and the only other strangeness is that between the completion of array assembly and the above-mentioned readonly switch I got an error from Ext3 indicating it couldn't recover a filesystem on a readonly device. I couldn't see any reason for the EXT3 error, nor for the md: output. Has anyone any ideas? Ruth - 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