For anyone who can help me here is some more information on my linux raid partition problem. As stated before, I only have two disks from a three disk raid 5. When I try: mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hde2 I get the following error: mdadm: cannot open device /dev/hdd2: No such file or directory mdadm: /dev/hdd2 has no superblock - assembly aborted When I do a mdadm examine, I get a different number of events: mdadm --examine /dev/sdd2 | egrep Event Events : 60541 mdadm --examine /dev/sde2 | egrep Event Events : 60544 Also mdadm examine gives different States: mdadm --examine /dev/sdd2 | egrep State State : active mdadm --examine /dev/sde2 | egrep State State : clean But mdadm shows that their Magic and UUID numbers are the same. Can anyone give suggestions on how I can repair this? Here are the full mdadm --examine outputs: mdadm --examine /dev/sdd2 /dev/sdd2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 1787919b:a8648f43:ae108b15:09b5fb69 Creation Time : Fri Jan 7 17:54:08 2005 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 48194816 (45.96 GiB 49.35 GB) Array Size : 96389632 (91.92 GiB 98.70 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 126 Update Time : Tue May 1 15:55:58 2012 State : active Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : b53ef3cf - correct Events : 60541 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 66 2 active sync /dev/sde2 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 8 50 1 active sync /dev/sdd2 2 2 8 66 2 active sync /dev/sde2 mdadm --examine /dev/sde2 /dev/sde2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 1787919b:a8648f43:ae108b15:09b5fb69 Creation Time : Fri Jan 7 17:54:08 2005 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 48194816 (45.96 GiB 49.35 GB) Array Size : 96389632 (91.92 GiB 98.70 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 126 Update Time : Tue May 1 15:56:20 2012 State : clean Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : b53fe060 - correct Events : 60544 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 50 1 active sync /dev/sdd2 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 8 50 1 active sync /dev/sdd2 2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed -- 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