On Fri, August 21, 2009 1:41 pm, jeffunit wrote: > I did > # mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bcdefgh] > > mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 6 drives - not enough to start the > array while no > t clean - consider --force. > > Should I use --force ? Yes, definitely. I meant to say that, sorry. > > I know how to deal with the startup issue, once the array is working. Great. 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