I forgot, in case it's of any help. mdadm -D gives after reassembly: /dev/md3: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Sun Jan 14 21:17:53 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 20980736 (20.01 GiB 21.48 GB) Device Size : 10490368 (10.00 GiB 10.74 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Jul 3 21:21:53 2007 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4K UUID : 36bbe21d:f49e8b5d:f504154c:a6f12a51 Events : 0.6995604 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3 3 0 active sync /dev/hda3 1 3 67 1 active sync /dev/hdb3 2 22 3 2 active sync /dev/hdc3 and after the next boot: /dev/md3: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Sun Jan 14 21:17:53 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 20980736 (20.01 GiB 21.48 GB) Device Size : 10490368 (10.00 GiB 10.74 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Jul 3 21:27:08 2007 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4K UUID : 36bbe21d:f49e8b5d:f504154c:a6f12a51 Events : 0.6995718 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3 3 0 active sync /dev/hda3 1 3 67 1 active sync /dev/hdb3 2 0 0 2 removed Any ideas on why the drive keeps being removed? -- YT, Michael - 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