greetings and apologies for repling to my own post. i forgot something and in fact i may have asked this before... yet when running CentOS with a compaq DL380... there was also a setting for array rebuild and changes priority low, medium and high for when a drive is hort swap replaced or an array is expanded etc... what does the wisdom on the list say here ??? the server will be low traffic for quite some time and so im guessing setting it to HIGH priority will not make a difference in day to day operations should a drive fail. do most people set it to HIGH regardless of the machine or situational possibilites? thanks and kind regards, - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net