On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote: > 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. you need to rebuild your initramfs after you make those changes to /etc/defaults/mdadm ... easiest is: dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r` -dean -- 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