Hi, ok i hoped the situation will turn arround and we can rescue the system. As i wrote at the first post Phil and i testet all order and checked with fsck. as an result of that, look at the first post, the most confidence would the last test with: mdadm --create --level 5 -n 6 --chunk=512 --assume-clean /dev/md2 /dev/sd{a,b,c,f,e}4 missing am i right? -- 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