On Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Mike Miller wrote: > Next I ran these two commands (one line each) to create the raid: > > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-devices 2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 --metadata=0.90 > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level 1 --raid-devices 2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 --metadata=0.90 I forgot to mention that mdadm is not available on the Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Desktop Live CD. To get mdadm I had to run this from the terminal window: sudo apt-get install mdadm That also installs postfix (a surprise to me) and while installing postfix it fills the screen in blue and asks two questions. For the first one I chose "local" and for the second I took the default name which was "ubuntu". Mike