Some time last night my machine had a kernel panic. Two of the arrays didn't start up. One I managed to fix as a mdadm -E clued me in that three of the drives were ok. So I just reassembled the three and added the fourth. Then it just started no problem. My big array however I'm not so lucky. I've got a state of Raid level: 5 /dev/sdb: AA.. (state: clean) /dev/sdk: AAAA (state: active) /dev/sdo: A.AA (state: clean) /dev/sdp: A.AA (state: clean) Thus can only get two drives to match in any config. How do I get out of this mess? -- 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