Hi all :-) after disks problems now I can't assemble my array: mdadm -A --force /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sda mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md0: Input/output error mdadm -S /dev/md0 and try to assemble same error.. mdadm -E /dev/sda Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 9bd6372e:e2eab1d5:d2bdc3cb:ad12f41d Creation Time : Mon Sep 27 14:19:15 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : 1465135936 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860543744 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Sat Jun 11 13:59:43 2011 State : active Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 1 Checksum : 99b0bd41 - correct Events : 701273 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 8 80 3 active sync /dev/sdf 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 80 3 active sync /dev/sdf 4 4 8 17 4 active sync /dev/sdb1 5 5 0 0 5 faulty removed 6 6 8 49 6 spare /dev/sdd1 how start my array? thanks! Pol -- 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