I've been using software raid to mirror two devices, and recently one of the drives went AWOL. md1 : active raid1 sdm[0] sdc[1](F) 12884900728 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_] bitmap: 1/96 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk However, md1 froze, and in looking at the logs I saw this: Oct 18 17:47:48 sys kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sdc from md1 ... Oct 18 17:47:48 sys kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sdc from md1 ... [root(marcus)@sanmirror3-01 ~]# mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --remove /dev/sdc mdadm: cannot find /dev/sdc: No such file or directory /dev/sdc was already gone! The /sys/block was already removed, no reference to it in /proc/scsi/scsi. So md1 was destined to sit there forever. So I rebooted and started up the degraded array. Using kernel 3.6.2 from kernel.org -- 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