On Sunday October 29, matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Actually I kind of fixed it last night. I found a posting by someone > on an older Ubuntu release with a similar problem, and he resolved it > by making loopback devices pointing at his constituent drives, and then > assembled the array using those. That works for me also, so the array > is running now.. but off of loopback devices instead of the direct raw > disks. Before I did that, proc/mdstat was empty. I just now looked in > /sys/block/hde/holders, but I don't know how to read it. Using loop-back doesn't sound like a good long-term solution. Maybe if you should us ls -la /sys/block/hde/holders we can interpret it for you.... 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