I realized I didn't include a lvdisplay -v of my volume. Here it is. The disks are spread out over 4 scsi busses. Thanks again. --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vgOracle/foo VG Name vgOracle LV Write Access read/write LV Status available LV # 52 # open 0 LV Size 9.04 GB Current LE 2314 Allocated LE 2314 Stripes 26 Stripe size (KByte) 64 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 120 Block device 58:51 --- Distribution of logical volume on 26 physical volumes --- PV Name PE on PV reads writes /dev/sdh1 89 13629 173625 /dev/sdi1 89 13616 173386 /dev/sdj1 89 13630 173372 /dev/sdl1 89 13619 173354 /dev/sdm1 89 13625 173369 /dev/sdn1 89 13619 173384 /dev/sdo1 89 13635 173391 /dev/sdp1 89 13632 173387 /dev/sdq1 89 13641 173401 /dev/sdr1 89 13633 173386 /dev/sds1 89 13639 173398 /dev/sdt1 89 13633 173388 /dev/sdu1 89 13625 173367 /dev/sdv1 89 13617 173357 /dev/sdw1 89 13625 173367 /dev/sdx1 89 13617 173358 /dev/sdy1 89 13624 173366 /dev/sdz1 89 13618 173354 /dev/sdaa1 89 13606 173366 /dev/sdab1 89 13600 173388 /dev/sdac1 89 13609 173366 /dev/sdad1 89 13603 173356 /dev/sdae1 89 13609 173364 /dev/sdaf1 89 13600 173361 /dev/sdag1 89 13607 173366 /dev/sdah1 89 13602 173354 --- logical volume i/o statistic --- 354113 reads 4507931 writes --cut--