Alvin> if it was me, i'd throw away the highpoint controller ... it Alvin> aint worth the risk of losing your data - i prefer sw raid and Alvin> its flexibility over expensive hw raid It's purely an IDE controller, four ports, two channels, supposedly ATA 133. I'm only using SW RAID on there. Alvin> isn't hpt (rocketraid) hardware raid ?? Nope, at least not this one. Thanks for the input. John - 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