Hey. Using Kernel 2.2.18 + E-IDE patches Rev 6.30 + Raid patches Putting together a fileserver setup with two mirrored FSs over four disks & two IDE controllers (ie each disk on controller 1 is mirrored to a second on Controller 2, using raid 1). No problems accessing disks separately, can create FS on each Ok with out errors. Can build each raid pair separately with no errors. But when attempting to build raid devices on all four disks at the same time get many of these Mar 22 15:41:11 uther kernel: hdk: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Mar 22 15:41:11 uther kernel: hdk: drive not ready for command .. from all four disks. Also get these when attempting mke2fs on all disks at the same time (no raid). Im guessing (probably incorrectly) that this is a warning message only & that I can ignore them; can anyone confirm / deny that for me? Got a bit out of my depth with this.. Hardware is ABit VP6 M/B, 2x1Ghz PIII, 512MB 2x Promise ultra100 PCI IDE controllers with 4x IBM-DTLA-307075 73Gb Drives 3Com 3C980 NIC 5th IBM-DTLA-307075 as root disk (no mirror), on M/B IDE controller. Onboard 'raid' controler disabled in bios. Software is RedHat 7.01 distribution Kernel 2.2.18 + E-IDE patches Rev 6.30 + Raid patches (also tried with 2.4.2 + E-IDE patches Rev 6.31, same problem) ... let me know if there is any other info I can give you. Thanx, Nick. -- Nick Clark is now --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- Thanking you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/