> The --name is for if you want to call the device something other than just md0. If you use /dev/md0 instead of --name=/dev/md0 it might work. thanks in fact it was just that ... so i did : mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/loop1 /dev/sdd1 and now i'm just hoping that it will work... every finger crossed :-) -- 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
