> 2) I replaced the MB to a different one, now it is a Gigabyte as > well, but it has no nvidia/jmicron contollers but ata_piix and achi > onboard, and - ironically - an addon sil24 card... > So far, the system running well [knock-knock], under heavy > stress test, for 3 weeks now, without problems. > I believe Tejun suggested to try to remove one of the HDD-s > online to see what happens, I will try this today later on, when > I am at the server and let you know. I removed power from one of the drives in question, and besides losing that disk, nothing extra happened - eg. the rest 7 drives stayed operational, raid was operational, etc. G. -- 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