Hello, thank you all for your emails with suggestions and comments on my problem. When messing around with the BIOS settings (switching SATA mode from RAID to IDE) I get quite an obvious message stating that the S.M.A.R.T. status of one of the disks is BAD. Removing that disk solved the problem. My system is mounting the remaining XFS partitions fast as usual. Thanks again Andi _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs