On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:04, Rob MacGregor wrote: > Friedrich Lobenstock wrote: > > 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? > > I'd be surprised, I've got a 450W PSU deliberately, even formatting > a striped LVM volume didn't cause a problem. However it could be > possible. The PSU came to my mind because I just got a quote for a PC server (dual AMD 1900, 430W PSU) and they told me that they certify this system for only 2 harddisk. So that's why I tought of the PSU because you've got 8 hdd's. -- 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