Is it an issue for mdadm if my discs spindown? I have seen that I can use sdparm -C start /dev/sda and schedule this with cron to keep them alive, but is there a better way? If there is a problem with spindown, then what is the issue? Why can't mdadm manage this? --andrew -- 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