On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As noted above, you will not be able to use /dev/sdc with the raid card. > You could try leaving it out and taking a backup with the degraded > array. That is what I would recommend first. OK, will do. Simply "mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sdb /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg"? Thanks so much for all the help so far. Nic -- 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