On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 07:18 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > And the partition types of sdj1 and sdk1 are ??? Neil, That did it! I set the partition FS Types from 'Linux' to 'Linux raid autodetect' after my last re-sync completed. Manually stopped and started the array. Things looked good, so I crossed my fingers and rebooted. The kernel found all the drives and all is happy here in Colorado. Thanks ever so much for your comment!! Craig After the reboot root@vaughan[501]: mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 09:10:52 2003 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1289056384 (1229.34 GiB 1319.99 GB) Device Size : 117186944 (111.76 GiB 120.00 GB) Raid Devices : 12 Total Devices : 13 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu May 25 16:21:28 2006 State : clean Active Devices : 12 Working Devices : 13 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K UUID : 4d862825:91140f1a:eb97e7f2:9bfa2403 Events : 0.2684360 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 8 129 3 active sync /dev/sdi1 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 5 8 81 5 active sync /dev/sdf1 6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1 7 8 113 7 active sync /dev/sdh1 8 8 49 8 active sync /dev/sdd1 9 8 161 9 active sync /dev/sdk1 10 22 1 10 active sync /dev/hdc1 11 8 177 11 active sync /dev/sdl1 12 8 145 - spare /dev/sdj1 - 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