Karanbir Singh schrieb: > > Have you looked into adaptec supplied management s/w ? In pretty much > ever case with such hba's the most functional way to look at state and > do any management on raid tends to be from vendor supplied s/w > > > 3Ware and Areca supply quite useful utilities that also work in Linux very well. Adaptec - I don't know. They aquired a lot of companies over the years and thus the quality of the management-apps is/was sometimes questionable - and you never knew which one was good and which one wasn't as it varied between different revisions of the same hardware (which might have a similar name but a totally different tech inside...). I've got lot's of Adaptec-SCSI gear at home - just no use for it anymore, because SCSI-drives don't make sense anymore in a desktop. It's not even the capacity - it's the noise. Rainer