Phil, You fucking rock, dude! Systemrescd did the trick. I had to force the assembly twice, but after that, it worked like a charm. I want to thank you from the bottom of my geek's heart! I was struggling to find an answer online, and everyone pointed to recreating the array. I'm so happy I found this mailing list, but further more, I thank my lucky stars that I came across YOU during this treacherous endeavor. My friend, you're a gentlemen and a scholar, nay ... A fucking Viking Berserker, is what you are! You have no idea how much of a big help you were to me, thank you ever so much. I really can't thank you enough. I have certainly met my match with mdadm, and was truly humbled by this experience. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! Cisco---- 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