On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 23:24 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > My system is actually installed on /dev/sda (a scsi drive) and the > 3-device raid was added later with: kk now I am dealing w/2 ides on diff. channels and the removable usb recognized as sda > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1 > missing yes I remember you telling me this now...and something happened to that msg w/all the new vmware goin on here too...I dunno.. > > The external drive becomes /dev/sdb when connected and > can be added with > mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 in my case would be sda1 2 3 > > I don't think you can do that in disk druid. yes, this is one of your msgs that I lost...thx for this no gotta forget druid for this... wondering if I should just dismantle the raid sys...and redo it as you did from the command line or... seeing it's a brand new system...nothing really on it...just throw a fresh (choose auto for the partitions) then make the arrays. I really would like to try to do what I'm trying to do just for the experience but lol I don't know who's gonna give out first me or raid...lol. It just seems hard to believe that this can't be done. thx Les, John Rose