When trying to assemble, the kernel complains: md: md1 stopped. md: sda2 does not have a valid v1.2 superblock, not importing! md: md_import_device returned -22 md: sdb2 does not have a valid v1.2 superblock, not importing! md: md_import_device returned -22 Yet the superblock looks perfectly fine according to mdadm -E: /dev/sda2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 34e89993:37821273:5498dc63:07233b2c Name : devserv2:1 Creation Time : Mon Jun 16 11:24:00 2014 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 3900907520 (1860.10 GiB 1997.26 GB) Array Size : 158334976 (151.00 GiB 162.14 GB) Used Dev Size : 316669952 (151.00 GiB 162.14 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 40c38a87:88807f78:5bf71f34:4c9b2215 Update Time : Mon Oct 20 09:56:25 2014 Checksum : d2369656 - correct Events : 303 Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdb2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 34e89993:37821273:5498dc63:07233b2c Name : devserv2:1 Creation Time : Mon Jun 16 11:24:00 2014 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 3900907520 (1860.10 GiB 1997.26 GB) Array Size : 158334976 (151.00 GiB 162.14 GB) Used Dev Size : 316669952 (151.00 GiB 162.14 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 0fb85e8f:e697a9a0:7bd6eac4:03b8851d Update Time : Mon Oct 20 10:08:35 2014 Checksum : 9b63a13c - correct Events : 311 Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : .A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -- 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