On Sunday July 23, pwaldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Here is the dmesg output. No log files are created with the FC5 rescue disk. > Thanks! > > > > On Sunday 23 July 2006 07:59, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Sunday July 23, pwaldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > At this point, I'd just be happy to be able to get the degraded array > > > back up and running. Is there any way to do that? Thanks! > > > > mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md1 /dev/hd[aceg]2 /dev/sd[ab]2 > > .... > raid6: cannot start dirty degraded array for md1 Just checked, and this is fixed in the latest mdadm. If you use 2.5.2 this --assemble --force will work. Alternately booting with md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1 or running echo 1 > /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/start_dirty_degraded before the --assemble should work. 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