Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Is there a documented procedure to follow during > creation or after that will get a raid6 array to self > rebuild ? MD will rebuild your array automatically, given that it has a spare disk to use. > raid5: Disk failure on sde, disabling device. Operation continuing on 35 devices Seems like a raid5, not raid6.. > [UU_UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] No need to do any rebuilding on the remaining devices, since the data on them are fine. You've lost redundancy however, so you should add a new disk to the array ASAP. With 35 disks, I'd recommend that you at least use raid6 in place of raid5.. - 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