I think my error was that maybe I did not do write the fdisk changes to the drive with fdisk w so I did fdisk /dev/sda p then w and then when I did mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level=2 -n2 /dev/sda1 missing it worked and set up the array. Thanks for being there! Mitchell - 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