Hi I'm realtivly new to linux, so plase forgive me some small basic stuff :) I'm using mdk8.1 kernel 2.4.8 on a Athlon 1333 with a Abit KT7A with HTP370 Raidcontroller onboard. The way i load it: (/etc/modules) alias block-major-114 hptraid pre-install hptraid /sbin/modprobe ataraid The Raid itselfs works fine, i load it this was in the fstab: /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 /var/data vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /var/data is chmod 777 that every user (me) can access it. /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 112G 24G 88G 22% /var/data Now the partition list: fdisk -l /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 Disk /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14598 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1p1 ? 120513 235786 925929529+ 68 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(288, 101, 46) should be (288, 254, 63) /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 79 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 13, 10) should be (0, 254, 63) /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(324, 77, 19) should be (324, 254, 63) /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1p4 ? 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(335, 78, 2) should be (335, 254, 63) Partition table entries are not in disk order this dont look very great :() anyway it works.. At the beginn i crated (there with partition magic) one gib fat32 partition, and as i remember the fdisk -l gave out one partion as well. I can still access the data, write on the partition etc. But now to the main problem: after using this partition about 10-15mins the whole system freezes totally. I mean with this i cant do anything anymore, cant change console etc. Everytime i have to reboot the system via reset. This cames while i read also when i write. While playing a video from this partition it freezes after 10mins, after i copied it to an other partition i hadnt any problems anymore. So i dont know if there is any error while modprobing (i took the same like i found on the inet while searching for support for my raid) or with the fat32 partition. May there is a general error? Researches via google etc gave me no results. I hope for some solution, feel free to gain more information if needed. Greets Oliver Sloss