Hi, Thank you all for all of your work on this topic. 1) I apologize for my email bouncing. I have no real choice in dsl service. Perhaps I will consider cable to prevent my mail bouncing! :) 2) I am able to hang 10 drives on 3 of the Promise SATA150 TX4 cards. So far the construction of 5 raid1's and mkfs.ext3 is ok without kernel error. All 10 drives are recognized by the promise BIOS (it shows drives 0-9) during system turnon. I use two separate 450 W antec power supplies. If I put on 12 drives, 4 on each one, the promise bios does not let me go further. It hangs. Says something about not able to recognize hardware configuration or something. This may be a hardware limitation, or even a faulty channel or two or perhaps one/two of the additional drives is not working. I dont know. I did notice this "not booting behavior for TX4" with no adequate hints as to what is going on earlier when i tried to hang a for a non funcioning sata drive on the card that failed right after purchase". I tried 11 drives also and no go. only 8 or less. Thank you all and I will let you know what i discover.. mitchell laks - 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
