Hi Rui, > Nevertheless, i could realy use those commands outputs. > Below are the command outputs for the RAID1 set when /dev/hdb3 was kicked during raid autodetect. Cheers, Bart -------------------------------------------------------------------- # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] md1 : active raid1 hdb2[1] hda2[0] 99904 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 hda3[0] 999936 blocks [2/1] [U_] # mdadm --misc -D /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Tue Jul 5 09:15:31 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 999936 (976.50 MiB 1023.93 MB) Device Size : 999936 (976.50 MiB 1023.93 MB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Jul 15 12:03:17 2005 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 1c03c211:3bbbdacf:20ff8e96:29bd37e7 Events : 0.211375 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3 3 0 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hda3 1 0 0 - removed # mdadm --misc -E /dev/hda3 /dev/hda3: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.01 UUID : 1c03c211:3bbbdacf:20ff8e96:29bd37e7 Creation Time : Tue Jul 5 09:15:31 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Fri Jul 15 12:03:17 2005 State : clean Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : d15f25b8 - correct Events : 0.211375 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 3 3 0 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hda3 0 0 3 3 0 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hda3 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed # mdadm --misc -E /dev/hdb3 /dev/hdb3: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.01 UUID : 1c03c211:3bbbdacf:20ff8e96:29bd37e7 Creation Time : Tue Jul 5 09:15:31 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Fri Jul 15 11:25:42 2005 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : d15f1c9a - correct Events : 0.211268 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 3 67 1 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hdb3 0 0 3 3 0 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hda3 1 1 3 67 1 active sync /dev/.static/dev/hdb3 - 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