Mitchell Laks wrote: > I think my error was that maybe I did not > do write the fdisk changes to the drive with > fdisk w No - your problem was that you needed to use the literal word "missing" like you did this time: > mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level=2 -n2 /dev/sda1 missing [however, this time you also asked for a RAID2 (--level=2) which I doubt would work] David - 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