Marc Marais wrote: [snip] > Unfortunately one of the drives timed out during the operation (not a read > error - just a timeout - which I would've thought would be retried but > anyway...): > Help appreciated. (I do have a full backup of course but that's a last > resort with my luck I'd get a read error from the tape drive) Hi Marc It looks like you've since recreated the array and restored your data - good :) It doesn't appear that you mentioned the kernel and distro you are using and the software versions. I'm sure this is something people will need. David - 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