I just copied 4+ TiB of information to this array, restarted 5 times and tried to access it.... What is going on? What kind of logs do you need, I really need help! This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on ALEXANDRIA A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md0. It could be related to component device /dev/sdl1. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid6 sdl1[9](F) sdm1[8] sdi1[10](F) sdj1[11](F) sdk1[12](F) sdh1[3] sdf1[1] sdg1[2] sde1[0] 6837318656 blocks level 6, 1024k chunk, algorithm 2 [9/5] [UUUU____U] md1 : active raid0 sdc1[1] sdb1[0] 586067072 blocks 64k chunks unused devices: <none> -- Andrew Dunn http://agdunn.net -- 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