Neil, On 15/07/10 15:40, Neil Brown wrote: >>> mdadm -A /dev/md2 --force /dev/sd[ade]2 Your advice has worked a treat. Thank you very much; my server is back up again. Thanks, Jan -- 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