hello neil, hello all! i have only a small single question, which i cannot solve via searching the web. i got an raid1 with 2 scsi disk (2x 73g) and have the state "dirty, no-errors". what can i do to get a REAL CLEAN state - both disks are on, active sync. ---- snipplet ----- mdadm -D /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Mon Feb 10 21:17:05 2003 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 71681920 (68.36 GiB 73.40 GB) Device Size : 71681920 (68.36 GiB 73.40 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Dec 19 11:25:26 2005 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 UUID : 59a16c8a:d18a2590:cfe54cd9:f8c7ff55 Events : 0.63 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- many thanks for a small tip! best regards, mario - austria - vienna -- Mario Kammerer http://the.PRO-jects.com 1170 Wien - Ottakringer Strasse 30/40 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. Thanx. ### LINUX is just like a wigwam... no WINDOWS, no GATES, but an apache inside #### - 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