Hello, I have a simple raid1 created on top of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. After I reboot, I would like to always manually assemble the raid. However, every time the machine reboots, it looks like md tries to automatically reassemble the raid, but usually binds only one of the source devices: 16936 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 3.472926] md: linear personality registered for level -1 16937 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 3.509352] md: multipath personality registered for level -4 16938 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 3.551948] md: raid0 personality registered for level 0 16939 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 3.683874] md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 16953 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 4.944362] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6 16954 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 4.944364] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5 16955 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 4.944365] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4 16956 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 4.949193] md: raid10 personality registered for level 10 16971 May 23 11:47:36 vc kernel: [ 6.059194] md: bind<sdb> And /proc/mdstat has: Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md_d127 : inactive sdd[1](S) 2097140 blocks super 1.2 According to md.txt, "only drives with a type 0 superblock can be autodetected and run at boot time". During raid creation, I have specified metadata version to be 1.2; this is confirmed by --examine. Also, I have tried to use raid=noautodetect kernel parameter, but the auto-detection still keeps happening. The only way up to now I have found to prevent this, is by specifying something like DEVICE /dev/null in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf What am I missing? Thanks, Alex. -- 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