I've actually since lost the dmesg output across a reboot .. trying to restart the array now with the same backup-file gives the below in dmesg: [ 2009.365158] md: md0 stopped. -- 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