Speaking of hardware disappointments, I was looking at the Norco DS-1220. This is a rackmount 12 bay SATA enclosure. I like the price point, but it uses SATA port multipliers. And Jeff Garzik's page says this is not supported by libata. Any ideas when Linux might be able to take advantage of such a fun piece of hardware without patching left, right and center? http://linux-ata.org/features.html Jeff - 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