> Disable NCQ and your problem will go away. Thank you. Just out of interest - which problem and why? > echo 1 > /sys/block/$i/device/queue_depth I get access denied even as root. FWIW the value is at 1 for the 4 disks in the raid anyway. The SCSI disk has value 8, which is probably irrelevant. For completeness' sake: mdadm version: mdadm - v2.6.4 - 19th October 2007 raid setup command: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --verbose --metadata=1.0 --homehost=jesus -n4 -c1024 -l5 --bitmap=internal --name tb-storage -ayes /dev/sd[bcde] cryptsetup command: cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/md0 --align-payload=2048 Any other suggestions on any of the issues? Thanks, C. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html