Hello, I have been trying to figure out how to fix my raid system, SUSE 9.3, linux 2.6.11.4-21.9-default. A hard reset put my raid in unstable state, almost same errors as http://sumo.genetics.ucla.edu/pipermail/nelsonlab-dev/2004-August/000150.htm... except, sda1 seems to be the problem. md: kicking non-fresh sda1 from array! I did mdadm -A -f /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 and then /proc/mdstat shows the 2 disk raid active, but I could not mount it, mounting /dev/md0 hangs. If the raid is ok in degraded (missing 1 drive) mode, shouldn't I be able to mount it? Also, another strange effect before I had the guts to run any real commands was that I could only run one mdadm command; all commands after the first would hang. Because of this I could not reboot, I have been doing soft resets and booting a livecd ever since this problem occured. The next potential step after mdadm -A -f is mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/sda1. Since I really don't know what I'm doing, I thought I'd ask for help and I kind of value this personal data, I don't really want to risk losing it. I'm considering paying to get some help in debugging this remotely ... Here is my /etc/raidtab : raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 3 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 parity-algorithm left-symmetric chunk-size 128 device /dev/sda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdc1 raid-disk 2 Thanks for any advice!! -- Milan Andric