Hi, I have some problems with my software RAID (SuSE 8.1) I'll give you an overview of the system first : PIII 450 Mhz 2 Promise Ultra ATA/133 PCI Controllers (Not the RAID version) On my Controller on the mainboard I have : 30Gb Disk for Root and 6.4Gb Disk for swap first Promise card : 3 80Gb disks one on a seperate IDE channel and the other two disks on one channel. second Promise card : 2 80Gb disks on seperate IDE channels ALL components in the computer are new and functioning properly! Raid configured like this : 5 disks in RAID 5 /dev/md0 256Kb chunks superblock no-spare-raid so 320Gb of diskspace I installed the RAIDarray from scratch and tried following filesystems : Reiserfs and Ext3 and I had the following problems on both filesystems. Services active (exept the standard ones): samba When I boot up my box it is unable to import the last disk, leaving me with a raid in degraded mode. and telling me a bit later on in boot he is adding spare-disk hdk1 ALTHOUGH I NEVER SPECIFIED IT TO BE A SPARE (not in yast at installation and not in /etc/raidtab) Although after repartitioning the raid device is healthy. but when I boot again it loses its last disk again. so I unmount the raid, do raidhotadd and the device is up and running again. Although after reboot it dissapears again. Now the next problem I have is this : When I copy files from the network to the RAID device at first i get 6000Kb/s and then it drops after a few seconds to 65Kb/sec and then it stops and hangs. I copied with samba AND tried it also with Secure copy. Same result. When I go locally on the box and do a ls from the raid-mount (/array) it takes about 10 seconds before it gives me a list (only two dirs on it now) and then all of a sudden the secure copy proceeds at top speed. until it stops again after a minute or so and hangs again. Even the whole linux box becomes unstable. The purpose of this machine is to use it as a fileserver where i can store all my documents and let it back up to CD or tape(other pc in the network) Really tried almost everything I know and have no clue what it could be.. . Thanks in advance Desperatly seeking solutions, Chris _____________________________________________ Make money while you work !!! http://www.degoo.com/index.php?refid=mersco This is for real !!! http://e-mailpaysu.com/members/index.cgi?mersco _____________________________________________