today had lots of problems getting 3 * Promise Ultra66 controller to work on each controller i have 2 hd's (2*80gb) bios only detect 4 drives (and scans 8 possible devices) bios 2.4.17 + latest ide patches now i try to start raid, then i get these errors : md: could not lock [dev 16:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. md: could not import [dev 16:01], trying to run array nevertheless. [events: 00000032] [events: 00000032] [events: 00000032] md: could not lock [dev 21:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. md: could not import [dev 21:01], trying to run array nevertheless. <..> RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:6 wd:4 fd:2 disk 0, s:0, o:1, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:hda1 disk 1, s:0, o:1, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:hdg1 disk 2, s:0, o:0, n:2 rd:2 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 4, s:0, o:0, n:4 rd:4 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 5, s:0, o:1, n:5 rd:5 us:1 dev:hdi1 raid5: failed to run raid set md0 so it goes wrong at the hdk1 and hdm1 i can see the partitions with fdisk anyone knows what goes wrong ? the raid works ok with the 2 onboard channels and 2 promise ultra66 controllers (but the 2 onboard channels are slower than ultra66 channels, so i wanted to add another ultra66 controller) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html