raidtools have been deprecated a few years ago in favor of mdadm AFAIK, if you are using a newer kernel with an older array, have you tried looking at it with mdadm?
Yes actually, Here's output using mdadm --detail /dev/md1 komodo:/var/log # mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Mon Oct 10 14:22:13 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 6297344 (6.01 GiB 6.45 GB) Device Size : 6297344 (6.01 GiB 6.45 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Aug 18 17:10:53 2006 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : fb3ed8ec:9abba9c8:624549a1:6c0bdf9f Events : 0.1922007 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 0 0 - removed 1 8 21 1 active sync /dev/sdb5 And here's for /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Mon Oct 10 14:22:08 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 104320 (101.88 MiB 106.82 MB) Device Size : 104320 (101.88 MiB 106.82 MB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Jul 13 13:49:39 2006 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 855c73db:ccf72f98:1c4ffc68:bca47694 Events : 0.1335 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 0 0 - removed I think my /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are working, but in sda only sda1 partition that working well, and in sdb5 - sdb8 are working but not sdb1. Any clue what's happening here ? regards, -- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.or.id