Hi, While on vacation I had one SATA port/cable fail, and then four hours later a second one fail. After fixing/moving the SATA ports, I can reboot and all drives seem to be OK now, but when assembled it won't recognize the filesystem. After futzing around with assemble options like --force and disk order I couldn't get it to work. Appreciate if someone can provide pointers on how to proceed. Here's the latest state of the array. My log shows that /dev/sdc1 failed first and I'm using mdadm v2.5.6 on Ubuntu Linux. Thanks much, Chris mdadm -Av /dev/md0 mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sda1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1. mdadm: /dev/sdc1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3. mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. mdadm: added /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md0 as 1 mdadm: added /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md0 as 2 mdadm: added /dev/sdc1 to /dev/md0 as 3 mdadm: added /dev/sda1 to /dev/md0 as 0 mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 3 drives (out of 4). mdadm -E /dev/sd[a-d]1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.03 UUID : bc74c21c:9655c1c6:ba6cc37a:df870496 Creation Time : Sun Nov 5 14:25:01 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 488383936 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Array Size : 1465151808 (1397.28 GiB 1500.32 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Wed Nov 7 12:02:50 2007 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 401c33e0 - correct Events : 0.4880374 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 254 0 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sda1 0 0 254 0 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sda1 1 1 254 1 1 active sync /dev/mapper/sdb1 2 2 254 2 2 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd1 3 3 0 0 3 faulty removed /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.03 UUID : bc74c21c:9655c1c6:ba6cc37a:df870496 Creation Time : Sun Nov 5 14:25:01 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 488383936 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Array Size : 1465151808 (1397.28 GiB 1500.32 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Wed Nov 7 12:02:50 2007 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 401c33e3 - correct Events : 0.4880374 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 254 1 1 active sync /dev/mapper/sdb1 0 0 254 0 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sda1 1 1 254 1 1 active sync /dev/mapper/sdb1 2 2 254 2 2 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd1 3 3 0 0 3 faulty removed /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.03 UUID : bc74c21c:9655c1c6:ba6cc37a:df870496 Creation Time : Sun Nov 5 14:25:01 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 488383936 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Array Size : 1465151808 (1397.28 GiB 1500.32 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Mon Nov 5 13:31:00 2007 State : active Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 3fced5a3 - correct Events : 0.4857597 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 254 3 3 active sync /dev/mapper/sdc1 0 0 254 0 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sda1 1 1 254 1 1 active sync /dev/mapper/sdb1 2 2 254 2 2 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd1 3 3 254 3 3 active sync /dev/mapper/sdc1 /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.03 UUID : bc74c21c:9655c1c6:ba6cc37a:df870496 Creation Time : Sun Nov 5 14:25:01 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 488383936 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Array Size : 1465151808 (1397.28 GiB 1500.32 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Wed Nov 7 12:02:50 2007 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 401c33e6 - correct Events : 0.4880374 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 254 2 2 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd1 0 0 254 0 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sda1 1 1 254 1 1 active sync /dev/mapper/sdb1 2 2 254 2 2 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd1 3 3 0 0 3 faulty removed -- This message was sent on behalf of chrise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/topic.html - 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