Here's my configuration: /boot 5M no mirror hda1 / 300M mirrored " 5 swap 256M no mirror " 6 /user_area ~26G mirrored " 7 /boot2 5M no mirror hdc1 / 300M mirrored " 5 swap 256M no mirror " 6 /user_area ~26G mirrored " 7 with /dev/md0 -> hda5, hdc5 and /dev/md1 -> hda7, hdc7 Here's what I'm curious about: When I run the system, /etc/raidtab looks right and mdstat shows both md devices active. If I bring the system down, disconnect one disk and bring the system back up, I get a lot of error messages about the missing drive during the early part of boot, boot continues and then I get prompted to enter the root password to go into maintenance mode (runlevel 1). I assumed the system would just pick up with the remaining drive and not need any user intervention. Will it always prompt me after a disk is down and I want to reboot ???? If I reconnect the second drive and boot back up I try to use raidhotadd, raidstart and raidstop but can't get the second drive back running and sync'd up. I also can only boot off of 1 disk. Help with what I'm missing??? TIA, Jeff H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]