On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:15:09 -0500 Matt Tehonica <matt.tehonica@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wondering if anyone else has seen a problem when creating a > RAID5 where mdadm will create it and it shows all disks as spares and > above it shows all drives as removed. I can't seem to figure this. Any > sugestions would be great. Maybe the raid456 modules isn't getting loaded? If you show us the exact command, the exact contents of /proc/mdstat, and any kernel log messages generated at the time it will be a lot easier to explain what is happening. 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