Hi, I'm very new to raid so my question is probably very basic. This machine I have, is set up with three partitions on three different disks (/dev/hda3, /dev/hde1, /dev/hdg1) forming a raid-5 array, /dev/md0. At some point, the machine became unresponsive, and on a reboot, I get the following: ... md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 ... md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: considering hdg1 ... md: adding hdg1 ... md: adding hde1 ... md: adding hda3 ... md: created md0 md: bind<hda3> md: bind<hde1> md: bind<hdg1> md: running: <hdg1><hde1><hda3> md: kicking non-fresh hdg1 from array! md: unbind<hdg1> md: export_rdev(hdg1) md: kicking non-fresh hde1 from array! md: unbind<hde1> md: export_rdev(hde1) md: personality 4 is not loaded! md :do_md_run() returned -22 md: md0 stopped. md: unbind<hda3> md: export_rdev(hda3) md: ... autorun DONE. I am using classic (non-mdadm) raid tools. Of course everything like /proc/mdstat, shows I have no md0, nor can I start md0. What would be the next logical thing to investigate, to get out of this situation? Boris - 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