On Wednesday March 29, chris@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. As you guessed, this was a problem > with our hardware/config and nothing to do with the raid software. I'm glad you have found your problem! > > Can anybody point me to the syntax I could use for saying: > > "force rebuild the array using drives ABCD but not E, even though > E looks fresh and D doesn't". mdadm -Af /dev/mdX A B C D i.e. don't even tell mdadm about E. NeilBrown - 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