> Firstly, you say a hot-spare and one of the used discs failed. That would be > a 3-drive array with a spare, not a 4-drive array. The raid.status attachment he posted was apparently pre-recovery. It shows the system was a 4 disk array, so there was no "hot spare." -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown -- 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