Hi. I have two RAID5 arrays on an opensuse 10.3 system. They are used together in a large LVM volume that contains a lot of data I'd rather not have to try and backup/recreate. md1 comes up fine and is detected by the OS on boot and assembled automatically. md0 however, doesn't, and needs to be brought up manually, followed by a manual start of lvm. This is a real pain of course. The issue I think is that md0 was created through EVMS, which I have stopped using some time ago since it's support seems to have been deprecated. EVMS created the array fine, but using partitions that were not 0xFD (Linux RAID), but rather 0x83 (linux native). Since stopping the use of EVMS on boot, the array has not come up automatically. I have tried failing one of the array members, recreating the partition as linux RAID though the yast partition manager, and then trying to add it, but I get a "mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy" error. If the partition is type 0x83 (linux native) and formatted first, then re-adding it is no problem at all, and the array rebuilds fine. In googling the topic I can't seem to find out why I get the error message, and how to fix this. I'd really like to get this problem resolved. Does anyone out there know how to fix this, so I can get partitions correctly flagged as Linux RAID and the array autodetected at start? Thanks, Mike ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org