diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index f5b8d22cf..8140b8712 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
            Stefan Koerner
  - Michael Obster: updated popt (1.7)
  - fixed screen's va_list useage (again - only visible on non-x86 system)
+ - Andreas V. Meier: added mdadm, an alternative to the old raid-tools
 
 *) 2003-11-13 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 
diff --git a/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.conf b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0cd7a4e0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# 
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+# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+# 
+# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.conf-unneeded
+# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
+# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
+# 
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+# Aside form ROCK Linux does stripping (if requested) itself, the Makefile
+# uses STRIP in the install target for the install binary and thus must not
+# point to the strip binary (would need to be -s ...)
+
+STRIP=""
+
diff --git a/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5f27b5b03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+
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+
+[I] Raid Configuration Tool
+
+[T] mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
+[T] device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
+[T] known as Software RAID arrays
+
+[A] Neil Brown
+[M] Andreas V. 'netrunner' Meier <avmeier@web.de>
+
+[C] extra/filesystem
+
+[L] GPL
+[S] Stable
+[V] 1.4.0
+[P] X -----5---9 800.000
+
+[D] 0 mdadm-1.4.0.tar.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+