> > At least I can still see the discs now. So now it's been syncing all > night and it's 50% complete. > That's slow - my RAID5 takes 3hrs to do 320Gb - mirrors should be a *lot* > faster. Hmmm. It's syncing at 6056k/s. dd ran at 320MB/s. worrying. Wonder if the controller is not that good. Sorry for line breaks, Outlook. > You *do not* need (and should not use) kernel autodetect. You should > assemble > the array in the init scripts. How can I stop the kernel from autodetecting? You just made me realize that this would solve my other problem: I cannot reboot my server remotely because it asks for the dmcrypt password on boot when I put a line in crypttab. Mounting everything with scripts *after* boot would let me reboot remotely. :) Thanks a lot for the help. I'll try mdadm --stop as soon as syncing has finished (95% complete now!!!) > > 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