OK, I had a two-disk raid5 (to allow expansion) on a Scientific Linux system I couldn't persuade to boot on a very modern kernel. In a nutshell, after some disk failures I have two "working" disks, neither of which will let me start the RAID5 device. What's the best way to try to recover what I can? (One disk fell off RAID and I think the other had some bad sectors.) I have backups of course, but it's a day's work for a number of people. MANY thanks John - 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