Nigel Kendrick wrote: > I have just stuck the disk drives onto a plug-in ITE8212 dual-IDE card and > now the systems boots and starts re-syncing properly so I reckon there may > be a problem with the MegaRAID drivers - is it worth me taking this further > and if so through what online channel - I guess it would go back to that > large North American Operating System vendor? MegaRAID drivers (and hardware they drive) doesn't have very bright history. When it works, it works. When it doesn't work, you are simply out of luck. From what you wrote, seems you belong in "out of luck" category. BTW, shouldn't MegaRAID cards be hardware RAID? If you configure RAID in card's BIOS, instead of using software RAID, does it than work correctly? -- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7