You have RAID to ensure data integrity in the case of a drive failure, no? That means you value your data. If you truly value your data you will get a real hardware RAID controller. The fake RAID such as these cards and even worse MD-RAID are jokes and not suitable for real-life uses. I used to use MD raid based on advice provided in the Linux community that it's "great" yet when the array (for no explainable reason... I use the same disks with a real hardware controller to this day) decided to break itself, there was no way, no possible command to force the array to be working again. The system wouldn't even boot up! Yet I could still mount the individual disks of the RAID-1 array, read the data and verify that both disks maintained data integrity. No explanation could be provided as to this behavior. If you really value your data... use real RAID. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org