Guys, Thanks for your help. I now have a working system after I downgraded my kernel. Its a shame the software RAID HOWTO does not point out the Alpha sub directory. Im shocked that I have lost 12GB off my raid 0 set before I have even started! Mark Beck cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [translucent] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid0 hdd1[3] hdc1[2] hdb1[1] hda1[0] 99959744 blocks 16k chunks unused devices: <none> df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 971293 658726 262391 72% / /dev/sda1 20406 198 20208 1% /dos /dev/md0 92137620 13 87139620 0% /raid
