Array is online, degraded for the moment but I can access the file systems for backups. I passed -A --force to mdadm, seems that did the trick. What puzzles me still is that I had a degraded array for the third time now and never could tell why it happened in the first place. This time the machine crashed for no apparent reason, tho I suspect heat issues. Will investigate and eventually move the disks to another machine. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com -- VGER BF report: S 0.991633 - 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