> Agreed, however Iain also said that he tried to mount individual > partitions and this failed. This should work with RAID1
Only if you force the filesystem type (i.e. mount -t xxx, or use mount.xxx directly). However, while I know this works with ext2/ext3/ext4, I have no idea if xfs is also smart enough to ignore the raid superblock and mount the filesystem anyway in this case. andrea