Hi all, I have an openSUSE 11.4 32Bit system installed on its own disk. Additionally attached are 2 mirrored 2-Port 3Ware raid cards, striped as Linux Raid, then mounted as /home/Data (ext4). The softraid was mounted after the OS installation within fstab, because I wanted Data to be on the raid and not be dependent on or be part of the OS FS directly. I've never had a softraid before. Hard-Raid recover is painless with 2Ware, and immune to failing OS. I got a backup of the 4 TB raid; it has 2 TB data and a restore takes quite a while. Now I lost my OS Installation, the disk is unresponsive. Before I go ahead, I was wondering which way to go. I am planning to install a new system and just hope the soft raid will be there when I partition. What should I watch out for? I have searched and read some ways to recover defective raids in the TLDP.org and others, but the raid was ok. It was a mount as /home/Data directory. I will mount it after the new installation as /home/Data again. Will that work ok? How does the raid-setup work? Is the raid-partition info kept on the disks? There is no controller with bios as in hardware raid to store the Linux softraid info. As far as I know, HW-raids save the raid-partition info on the disks and on the controller. How is it in softraid? :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org