Neil Brown wrote: > You shouldn't need to upgrade kernel Ok. I had a crazy idea that 2 devices down in a RAID5 was an MD bug. I didn't expect MD to kick that last disk - I would have thought that it would just pass on the read error in that situation. If you've got the time to explain I'd like to be wiser - why not? > But yet, use --assemble --force and be aware that there could be data > corruption (without knowing the history it is hard to say how > likely). An 'fsck' at least would be recommended. Thanks a tera! (Probably no corruption since I was strictly reading from the array when the disks were kicked.) - 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