Hi, I am running 3.2.0 (ubuntu 12.04). My raid5 has 3 disks (sd[cbd]1) and no spares. The system boots off a non-raid device and auto discovers and mounts the raid device. For some reason, sdc1 is not automatically detected and is always missed on each boot. I have to re-add it back. What could be causing this? This did not happen while I was running 2.6.38. Thanks, Dong Lin ; mdadm --misc --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Fri Jul 22 22:39:40 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 3907020800 (3726.03 GiB 4000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 1953510400 (1863.01 GiB 2000.39 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Mon May 7 09:21:29 2012 State : active Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : disc:0 UUID : 4195aaa7:0ebd37ce:d4b9481e:1a68f4a8 Events : 230784 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 4 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 2 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 3 8 17 2 active sync /dev/sdb1 ---------------------------- here is what happened on boot: ; dmesg |grep md [ 1.781917] md: linear personality registered for level -1 [ 1.789184] md: multipath personality registered for level -4 [ 1.797121] md: raid0 personality registered for level 0 [ 1.801681] md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 [ 1.820485] ata7: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xfa00 irq 14 [ 1.820547] ata8: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xfa08 irq 15 [ 1.920271] md: bind<sdb1> [ 1.962482] md: bind<sdd1> [ 2.300917] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6 [ 2.300980] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5 [ 2.301036] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4 [ 2.306171] md: raid10 personality registered for level 10 [ 2.329393] md/raid:md0: device sdd1 operational as raid disk 1 [ 2.329450] md/raid:md0: device sdb1 operational as raid disk 2 [ 2.329792] md/raid:md0: allocated 3228kB [ 2.329921] md/raid:md0: raid level 5 active with 2 out of 3 devices, algorithm 2 [ 2.330235] created bitmap (15 pages) for device md0 [ 2.330706] md0: bitmap initialized from disk: read 1/1 pages, set 0 of 29809 bits [ 2.362404] md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 4000789299200 [ 2.367990] md0: unknown partition table ======================================= partition tables: ; fdisk -l | egrep '^/dev/sd[cbd]' /dev/sdb1 63 3907024064 1953512001 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc1 63 3907024064 1953512001 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd1 63 3907024064 1953512001 fd Linux raid autodetect -- 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