I have a redhat 9 server with 6 drives, four of which are 160GB drives in a RAID 5 config. Each time I reboot I loose one of the raid devices. However, I can reinsert the drive without problem and it is synced again. However, as it takes nearly four hours to resync, this is a pain. Any ideas why the drive is being rejected on boot? I don't see any problems with the drive otherwise and I run smartd to monitor all the drives. [root@munster root]# dmesg|grep hdg ide3: BM-DMA at 0x7008-0x700f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hdg: WDC WD1600JB-00EVA0, ATA DISK drive hdg: attached ide-disk driver. hdg: host protected area => 1 hdg: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100) hdg: unknown partition table md0: former device hdg is unavailable, removing from array! md0: former device hdg is unavailable, removing from array! md: trying to hot-add hdg to md0 ... md: bind<hdg,4> md: hdg [events: 00000055]<6>(write) hdg's sb offset: 156290816 md0: resyncing spare disk hdg to replace failed disk [root@munster root]# mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/hdg mdadm: hot added /dev/hdg [root@munster root]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid5 hdg[4] hde1[0] hdi1[2] hdk1[3] 468864768 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [U_UU] [>....................] recovery = 0.0% (88552/156288256) finish=235.0min speed=11069K/sec unused devices: <none> Chris Mason -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list