I'd like to assembla manually to investigate why the bloody 5th disk flies from the array at EVERY boot time (third so far, wonder how much stress the disks take) but I can't seen to disable it. All 5 disks are 0xFD, but I passed raid=noautodetect to the end of the kernel line, I set "assemble at startup" in /etc/defaults/mdadm to "false", I cleared the mdadm.conf - still it assembles the array. No idea why. Hints? I'm currently pretty much down with my nerves on this issue. Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de -- 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