Thanks for the help Karanbir and Rainer. > That sounds quite silly - also going through reboots means downtime, > isnt that the sort of thing that raid1 was designed to protect against > anyway. I guess it would be silly :). I just wanted to make sure it was doing what it ought too. >> 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 > > 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 checked the Adaptec site again and found a link to the Adaptec Storage Manager. I don't know how I missed that, thanks for the push in the right direction. Hopefully it works. Thanks, dianne