> But anyway, it's better, so thank you! I haven't rebooted the celeron > I hung for the duration of a RAID-1 check, so I haven't checked that with > 2.6.18 yet. Followup: 2.6.18 installed and tested; no change. The machine still "goes away" for the duration if three RAID-1 checks are run in parallel, and comes back to life only when the first one finishes. - 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