* Neil Brown wrote: > So I would just > mdadm -ARf /dev/md6 /dev/sd[abcd]8 /dev/sde1 > and let mdadm pick the best drives. Then add the remaining one in as > a hot-add. Thank you very much. It chose to exclude /dev/sdc8 which I re-added and the array is rebuilding now. Best Regards, Karsten Desler - 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