diff --git a/mxraid/mxraid_assemble b/mxraid/mxraid_assemble
index 6c6328e..1cb8310 100755
--- a/mxraid/mxraid_assemble
+++ b/mxraid/mxraid_assemble
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ if ($opts{l}) {
     print "\n";
   }
   if ($VERBOSE >= 2) {
-    print "Disks not part of a SW-RAID:\n";
+    print "Disks not part of a configured SW-RAID:\n";
     for my $rec (@{$hd->non_raid_disks()}) {
       printf "           %5s %-16s '%s'\n", @$rec;
     }
@@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ sub create_mdadm_configs {
         if ($do_assemble) {
           my @args = ('mdadm', '-A', '/dev/md'.$dev_no, '-c', $conf_fn);
           push @args, split m/\s+/, $MDADM_ASSEMBLE_OPTIONS if $MDADM_ASSEMBLE_OPTIONS;
-          warn printf "#  NOTE: $rlabel, running '%s'\n", join(' ', @args) if $VERBOSE >= 2;
-          system (@args) == 0 or warn "# Error system @args failed: $?" if $VERBOSE >= 1;
+          warn sprintf "#  NOTE: $rlabel, running '%s'\n", join(' ', @args) if $VERBOSE >= 2;
+          system (@args) == 0 or warn "# Error system @args failed: $?"; # serious, always warn
         } else {
           printf "mdadm -A /dev/md%d -c %s\n", $dev_no, $conf_fn;
         }