> fdisk -u /dev/sdX > # -u change the unit displayed by fdisk to sector instead of > cylinders, this way it's easier to configure [...] thanks for guide :-) after this, my raid5 (rebuilding in progress): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1024M count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 166.042 s, 64.7 MB/s 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