Dear friends, I am faced with a problem. I have to input an additional HD into my SuSE8.1 Box currently using all available slots of IDE. That is 1 CDROM 1 HD for the Operating System 2 HDs in Raid-1. The machine is working just fine and everything is going by like a breeze. My only problem is that I was to input a HD as a spare into my Raid-1 configuration, because the HDs are old and I am afraid that should one of them fail, I will have to seek another drive in any odd hour of the night. So by adding a spare, I can worry about a HD failure without having to find immediately a new HD. Can you guys help me in telling me any IDE controlers (not SATA) that are in the market and SuSE8.1 recognizes. At the moment, I have found some which are possible: - Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A - AAR - Q-TEC 340R RAID 133 PCI Card - Promise Controller ATA100 Raid 2CH Well all of them supply hardware raid which I will not use as the software raid that I am employing works just fine! Anyone using the Q-TEC (which is the cheapest one) ?? I looked at the SuSE Hardware Database, but I couldn't find any information (I guess I do not know how to use the system well). Thank you all in advance! Chris