Well it seems that the install process is not the problem... I setup another drive on the symbios card and installed debian, then compiled a new kernel for drivers for the RAID controller and created the filesystem from there and got the same problem. It took forever to create the filesystems. I looked in /var/log at syslog, messages, kern.log, etc and found no error reporting. This really puzzels me that this could be happening on just debian seeing as this is a kernel level driver. I guess my next step is to install this card in another machine and see what happens there. I'm not for sure what else to try. Maybe I will try another dist just to see if it will work that way we can definitly say if this is a debian only problem or not. Anyway, I will keep you updated on my progress. Thanks. -- Jason Mesker Internet Tool & Die System/Network Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]