On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:07, Oliver Schulze L. wrote: > Check, IDS cables, jumpers, BIOS settings. > > Also, download the .iso support CD from the manufacturer (western > digital, seagte, etc) > and boot with that CD, check SMART and hardware and re certificate your > discs > to be fault free. > > Then, try it again. I thinks its a hardware issue So did I, for a full day. I replaced the hard drives completely, just to be sure. I replaced the cable, twice. I checked and rechecked the BIOS settings. As a strait system, it worked great. Add IDE-RAID - instant problems. Thanks for considering it, though. -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978