On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:30, Rob MacGregor wrote: > System - Linux-Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18. > Hardware: Asus A7V motherboard, 2 x Promise Ultra100 TX2 controllers, 8 > Matrox 120 GB drives, 1 60 GB Matrox drive. > > If I try to create a single RAID5 array using all 8 120 GB drives, > some 800 GB effective, shortly after starting that md the system > locks completely. It doesn't appear to do so with up to 6 devices > (I'll be doing more testing to find out exactly when it dies, but > it's a long process of recovering the system each time). Could this be a shortcoming of your power supply unit? I guess with raid5 all disks get examined where with LVM it would not really load all disks? -- MfG / Regards Friedrich Lobenstock - 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