Mdadm creation question

[Asgorath]

I'm trying to create an array, /dev/md2 , out of 4 hard drives. I am able to create it with mdadm, but I am getting a strange line when I do a, mdadm --detail /dev/md2:

I formatted each drive with one partition that spans the entire drive of type fd (linux raid autodetect)

Here is my creation line:

mdadm -v --create /dev/md2 --chunk=128 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sd{a,b,c,d}1

Here is my mdadm --detail /dev/md2

mdadm --detail /dev/md2
/dev/md2:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Sun Mar 18 12:37:53 2007
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 1465151616 (1397.28 GiB 1500.32 GB)
Device Size : 488383872 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Sun Mar 18 12:37:53 2007
State : clean
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0

Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K

UUID : adebaa91:73e04b99:f9a2fbcd:72ae3a0c
Events : 0.1

Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
2 0 0 140693960 removed

4 8 49 4 active sync /dev/sdd1

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The line in question is:
2 0 0 140693960 removed

What is that line? Its a fresh array and I haven't removed a device from it.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Mike32]

I'm pretty sure that is because the raid is still syncing, though i'm not 100% on that.

Mike

 

[taqueso]

I don't know what that line means. What does /proc/mdstat say?