Neil Brown wrote: > Try adding '--force' to the -A line. > That tells mdadm to try really hard to assemble the array. thanks, this seems to have solved the issue... Akos - 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