On Fri, August 29, 2008 3:47 pm, thomas62186218@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > Sorry for the confusion. I mistyped the -C command in my initial email > (forgot the hot-spare) and thus the confusion. > > Here is the full output from the top using copy/paste. Thank you in > advance for your help!! In the first mail you sent, there was an mdadm.conf. But now: > root@localhost:~# cat /etc/mdadm.conf > root@localhost:~# there isn't. Why is that? If you want mdadm to assemble an array you need to tell it where to find the devices and how to recognise them. The mdadm.conf you had before was exactly the right sort of thing to have. Without it you need to be more explicit mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sd[b-m] maybe. Or after creating the array mdadm -D > /etc/mdadm.conf NeilBrown -- 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