Hello Rob, Thursday, July 10, 2003, 3:11:41 AM, you wrote: RvN> I've read several positive reports on the quality of the 3ware 7500-x RvN> and 8500-x ATARAID controllers. RvN> I plan to use them in SMP machines (running RH9). RvN> Are there any known issues with the combination of 3ware & SMP ? I posted some time ago on this list my negative experience with 7500-8 and RH9 - see "poor raid5 performance of 3ware 7500 under Linux" posting. Either switching back to RH8 or installing 2.4.21 seemed to fix the problem. -- Best regards, Alex mailto:alexver5@xxxxxxx