Hi Drew 2013/6/5 Drew <drew.kay@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 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." I tried to find hints on the web and http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_retrieve_data_from_RAID_Volumes_on_Linux seems to say the same as you. :-( Thanks to all for the help! Philipp -- 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