> All the command line tricks in the world will not change the fact that > his IEEE1394 drive subsystem is presenting one or more of his drives as > read only devices.. Well, this turns out to have been true. The IEEE1394 package I installed included an eth1394 kernel module, which seems to have caused the conflict. Don't know why. I disabled that thing, and all of a sudden the errors stopped and the array came right back up. Unfortunately, there must've been some data loss: # fsck /dev/md0 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) fsck.jfs version 1.1.7, 22-Jul-2004 processing started: 4/19/2006 21.35.4 Using default parameter: -p The current device is: /dev/md0 Block size in bytes: 4096 Filesystem size in blocks: 183148848 **Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log Warning... fsck.jfs for device /dev/md0 exited with signal 11. # mount -a mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Any ideas on where to take it from here? Thanks, Karl -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl - 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