Previously, I wrote: > After making some changes in the bios to my boot order, my 5-drive RAID6 > stopped assembling. Three of the five known-good drives suddenly stopped > getting added to the right slots. There are no disk errors in the logs and > I can read from the drives with no problems. Any help with this one? My disks are fine but mdadm seems confused about which slots they're supposed to be in. How can I tell mdadm to put them in the right slots? Thanks, Dave # mdadm --stop /dev/md0 mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 # mdadm -v -Af /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bcdef]1 mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 7. mdadm: /dev/sdc1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 6. mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3. mdadm: /dev/sdf1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 5. mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md0 mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md0 mdadm: added /dev/sde1 to /dev/md0 as 3 mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 4 of /dev/md0 mdadm: added /dev/sdf1 to /dev/md0 as 5 mdadm: added /dev/sdc1 to /dev/md0 as 6 mdadm: added /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md0 as 7 mdadm: added /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md0 as 2 mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 2 drives and 3 spares - not enough to start the array. # -- 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