Which MD version are you using? What you describe looks suspiciously like the problem I tried to solve with my patch "DDF: use existing locations for primary and secondary DDF structure". Please give the current git version of mdadm a try. Martin -- 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