On Tuesday April 11, johnny@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > State: active > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 3 2 0 active sync /dev/hda2 > 1 22 2 1 active sync /dev/hdc2 > 2 0 0 2 faulty removed > 3 34 1 3 active sync /dev/hdg1 active and degraded is a bad combination. There is a small possibility of undetectable data corruption. I wonder why the system froze - that would contribute to the 'active'. Add a '--force' to the '--assemble' and it will start the array for you. 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