--- Per Jessen
So, how could this thing consistently refuse to put the drive into the array. The system as a whole sees the drive on startup, but the md drivers never even consider adding the drive. Any suggestions?
Partition type = 0xFD = raid autodetect ?
Thanks, Per. I guess when I replaced the drive after its predecessor actually did fail, that somehow got left as standard Linux partition. Sigh :( Anyway, all is happy now, thanks for the pointer. Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com