i forgot to mention that speed is generally no problem on the raid set. It's connected to a gigabit interface and copying to and from the interface gives about 35mb/s over the link. So disks are fast and IO is working pretty good. Now i just sit here with my last hope on you fellas ;-) Regards Phantazm - 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