On Monday January 7, jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Problem is not raid, or at least not obviously raid related. The > problem is that the whole disk, /dev/hdb is unavailable. Maybe check /sys/block/hdb/holders ? lsof /dev/hdb ? good luck :-) NeilBrown - 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