I have made the following test with my raid5: 1. created raid5 with 4 sata disks. 2. waited untill raid was fully initialized. 3. pulled a disk from the panel. 4. shut the system. 5. put back the disk. 6. turn on the system. The raid failed failed to recver. i got message from the md layer saying that it rejects the dirty disk. Anyone ? -- Raz - 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