hello.one thing i forgot.there are 24 hard disk drives in two scsi channels made into 3 RAID 5 logical drives on my machine.each consists of 8 drives. is the way of making the logical drive a maybe factor of the problem?help is in need greatly. regards james - 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/