> will this 24 port card itself will be a bottleneck? Yes. The U320 SCSI bus on which it resides will be if nothing else. John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx - 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