...and then David T-G home said... % % ...and then Wol said... % ... % % I wonder if a controlled reboot would fix it. Or just do a --stop followed % % I've tried a couple of reboots; they're stuck that way. I'll try the % stop and assemble. [snip] Stopping was easy: diskfarm:~ # for A in 51 52 53 54 55 56 ; do mdadm --stop /dev/md$A ; done mdadm: stopped /dev/md51 mdadm: stopped /dev/md52 mdadm: stopped /dev/md53 mdadm: stopped /dev/md54 mdadm: stopped /dev/md55 mdadm: stopped /dev/md56 Restarting wasn't as impressive: diskfarm:~ # for A in 51 52 53 54 55 56 ; do mdadm --assemble /dev/md$A /dev/sd[dcblfk]$A ; done mdadm: /dev/md51 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array. mdadm: /dev/md52 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array. mdadm: /dev/md53 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array. mdadm: /dev/md54 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array. mdadm: /dev/md55 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array. mdadm: /dev/md56 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array. diskfarm:~ # mdadm --detail /dev/md51 /dev/md51: Version : 1.2 Raid Level : raid5 Total Devices : 6 Persistence : Superblock is persistent State : inactive Working Devices : 6 Name : diskfarm:51 (local to host diskfarm) UUID : 9330e44f:35baf039:7e971a8e:da983e31 Events : 46655 Number Major Minor RaidDevice - 259 39 - /dev/sdl51 - 259 9 - /dev/sdb51 - 259 31 - /dev/sdk51 - 259 16 - /dev/sdd51 - 259 2 - /dev/sdc51 - 259 23 - /dev/sdf51 diskfarm:~ # grep md51 /proc/mdstat md51 : inactive sdk51[6](S) sdl51[4](S) sdf51[5](S) sdc51[1](S) sdd51[3](S) sdb51[0](S) Still all spares. And here I was hoping this would be easy ... Thanks again :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt