On Sun, 30 May 2004 AndyLiebman@xxxxxxx wrote: >I have a Supermicro X5DPE-G2 motherboard, a single Xeon 3.06 Ghz processor, 2 >GB RAM. I have eight 250 GB Maxtor SATA drives assembled into one 2 TB >Hardware RAID-5 array. If the MB supports "spread spectrum" (it'll be in one of the BIOS chipset menus), turn it off. I've seen it cause too many PCI/memory issues to be of any value. if has nothing to do with machine speed; it's an RF emissions thing. --Ricky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html