I should have added the versions of what I'm running: oak:~# mdadm --version mdadm - v1.12.0 - 14 June 2005 oak:~# uname -a Linux oak 2.6.11-1-386 #1 Mon Jun 20 20:53:17 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux oak:~# oak:~# lvm version LVM version: 2.01.04 (2005-02-09) Library version: 1.01.04 (2005-08-02) Driver version: 4.4.0 -- Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois - 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