On Thursday September 8, babydr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > When I try to do the remove I get . > root@devel-0:/ # mdadm /dev/md_d0 --remove /dev/sdao > mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdao: Device or resource busy > > I should also have 3 other drives that are spares . I could > try hot remove on one of them . See at bottom the output of > mdadm --misc -Q --detail /dev/md_d0 > Which is showing no spare drives ? And I built it with 4 > spares Yes... /dev/sda[pqrs] are missing. I wonder why.. What does mdadm -E /dev/sda[pqrs] show? What happens if you then mdadm /dev/md_d0 -a /dev/sda[pqrs] ?? NeilBrown - 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