Thank you for your response. Here is the output you requested. >What is the result of: > > mdadm -S /dev/md0 # mdadm -S /dev/md0 mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 # > mdadm -Avvv /dev/md0 # mdadm -Avvv /dev/md0 mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdi1: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sdi1 has no superblock - assembly aborted # --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/ -- 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