Sebastian Walter wrote: ... > As far as I see, the Adaptex AAC-RAID card is a SATA card, while > Adaptec's SAS cards are called AIC, ASC/ASR or ASR (please correct me if > I'm wrong! Accept my apologies in advance if I am). I have 8 SAS disks on my AAC-RAID card: # arcconf getconfig 1 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Device information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Device #0 Device is a Hard drive State : Online Supported : Yes Transfer Speed : SAS 3.0 Gb/s Reported Channel,Device : 0,0 Reported Enclosure,Slot : 0,0 Vendor : IBM-ESXS Model : ST3300555SS Firmware : BA33 Serial number : 3LM0JKE2 World-wide name : 5000C5000226E7C0 Size : 286102 MB Write Cache : Enabled (write-back) FRU : 39R7356 PFA : No ... But maybe lspci is wrong, as it is in fact an IBM serveraid card (made by adaptec)? Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk at crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk