Hello, Hope this is not a silly question: Knows anybody what this "minus one" means in the message "Failed Devices : -1" AND why are "Total Devices : 1" when working devices are 2 ?? I am testing a raid1 SCSI system with 10 partitions. After some simulated fails an rebuilds 2 partitions are left over with this message. Using mdadm with --fail => --remove => --add didn't help (in other cases it did), only --stop and then --create which recreated the array anew. But /dev/md10 is my root partition which I can't stop and recreate. Any idea would be appreciated, thanks - IvorJoseph P.S. (Of course, I have already googled, scanned FAQs and mailing lists :-) ========== Just for Information: ============================================ Version: mdadm 1.90, no raidtools OS: debian sarge 3.1 Kernel: 2.4.x Interface: LSI SCSI LVD Ultra-80 2 x channel controler, 1 disk per channel HDDs: 2 x IBM 36 GB, /dev/sda14 and /dev/sdb14 RAID: RAID-1, /dev/md10 ============================================================================== /dev/md10: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Thu Nov 3 22:14:58 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 1461760 (1.39 GiB 1.50 GB) Device Size : 1461760 (1.39 GiB 1.50 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 10 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Nov 23 08:19:39 2005 State : active Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : -1 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 662fe3e9:23fd0a28:c0dd9b9e:73b8e7cd Events : 0.47 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 14 0 active sync /dev/sda14 1 8 30 1 active sync /dev/sdb14 ============================================================================== /dev/sda14: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 662fe3e9:23fd0a28:c0dd9b9e:73b8e7cd Creation Time : Thu Nov 3 22:14:58 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 10 Update Time : Wed Nov 23 08:19:39 2005 State : active Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : -1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : eef3a5c5 - correct Events : 0.47 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 14 0 active sync /dev/sda14 0 0 8 14 0 active sync /dev/sda14 1 1 8 30 1 active sync /dev/sdb14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /dev/sdb14: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 662fe3e9:23fd0a28:c0dd9b9e:73b8e7cd Creation Time : Thu Nov 3 22:14:58 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 10 Update Time : Wed Nov 23 08:19:39 2005 State : active Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : -1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : eef3a5d7 - correct Events : 0.47 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 30 1 active sync /dev/sdb14 0 0 8 14 0 active sync /dev/sda14 1 1 8 30 1 active sync /dev/sdb14 - 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