On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:18:32 -0600 "Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oops! 'Sorry, I was on the wrong server. The server with the PATA > drives also allowed me to add with a -W switch this time, but the logs on it > show even less: :-) Can you do: mdadm /dev/md1 -f /dev/hda1 mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/hda1 mdadm -D /dev/md1 mdadm -E /dev/hda1 mdadm /dev/md1 -a -W /dev/hda1 mdadm -D /dev/md1 mdadm -E /dev/hda1 and show me all the output along with kernel log messages generated at the time. 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