Hi Ingo, looking at the posts in the linux-raid mailing list I think that for the next version of raidtools the errormessage mkraid: aborted should be extended to include "see syslog for details" - guess it would really help if people actually knew where to find the reason for their problem. Bye, Martin "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" -------------------------------------------------- Martin Bene vox: +43-664-3251047 simon media fax: +43-316-813824-6 Andreas-Hofer-Platz 9 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8010 Graz, Austria -------------------------------------------------- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key