This is kind of interesting: storrgie@ALEXANDRIA:~$ sudo mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0 All of the devices are there in /dev, so I wanted to examine them: storrgie@ALEXANDRIA:~$ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sde1 /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 397e0b3f:34cbe4cc:613e2239:070da8c8 (local to host ALEXANDRIA) Creation Time : Fri Nov 6 07:06:34 2009 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : 976759808 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Array Size : 6837318656 (6520.58 GiB 7001.41 GB) Raid Devices : 9 Total Devices : 9 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Sun Nov 8 08:57:04 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 5 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 4 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 4ff41c5f - correct Events : 43 Chunk Size : 1024K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 65 0 active sync /dev/sde1 0 0 8 65 0 active sync /dev/sde1 1 1 8 81 1 active sync /dev/sdf1 2 2 8 97 2 active sync /dev/sdg1 3 3 8 113 3 active sync /dev/sdh1 4 4 0 0 4 faulty removed 5 5 0 0 5 faulty removed 6 6 0 0 6 faulty removed 7 7 0 0 7 faulty removed 8 8 8 193 8 active sync /dev/sdm1 First raid device shows the failures.... One of the 'removed' devices: storrgie@ALEXANDRIA:~$ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdi1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 397e0b3f:34cbe4cc:613e2239:070da8c8 (local to host ALEXANDRIA) Creation Time : Fri Nov 6 07:06:34 2009 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : 976759808 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Array Size : 6837318656 (6520.58 GiB 7001.41 GB) Raid Devices : 9 Total Devices : 9 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Sun Nov 8 08:53:30 2009 State : active Active Devices : 9 Working Devices : 9 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 4ff41b2f - correct Events : 21 Chunk Size : 1024K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 4 8 129 4 active sync /dev/sdi1 0 0 8 65 0 active sync /dev/sde1 1 1 8 81 1 active sync /dev/sdf1 2 2 8 97 2 active sync /dev/sdg1 3 3 8 113 3 active sync /dev/sdh1 4 4 8 129 4 active sync /dev/sdi1 5 5 8 145 5 active sync /dev/sdj1 6 6 8 161 6 active sync /dev/sdk1 7 7 8 177 7 active sync /dev/sdl1 8 8 8 193 8 active sync /dev/sdm1 -- 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