It sounds like you're trying to use a really old redhat version instead of either the commercial fedora or it's free release centos. I'm not very familliar with Redhat's newer releases, but if it's a hardware issue versions of Debian probably still support your hardware. -- 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