Due to an extended power outage over the new year, I have a RAID5 array with two dirty devices so it won't come up. The HOWTO suggests running: mdadm --assemble --force Is this good advice? I'm running RedHat 9 so I don't have mdadm but of course I'm happy to install it. Thanks John - 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