> Have a look at the "For assemble" > section of the mdadm man page. > > mdadm -A --force /dev/mdX /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > > does not seem contorted to me. You're absolutely right. But will this assemble a RAID5 array where the event counters are out of sync on not one, but two disks? -- 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