On Friday June 30, darkeye@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Francois Barre wrote: > > Did you try upgrading mdadm yet ? > > yes, I have version 2.5 now, and it produces the same results. > Try adding '--force' to the -A line. That tells mdadm to try really hard to assemble the array. You should be aware that when a degraded array has an unclean shutdown it is possible that data corruption could result, possibly in files that have not be changed for a long time. It is also quite possible that there is no data corruption, or it is only on part of the array that are not actually in use. I recommend at least a full 'fsck' in this situation. 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