Hi Ingo, I think I just ran into a problem when trying to analyze a problem encounterd by a user on the raid-mailinglist: He had configured a 12-disk raid 5 device. Problem: you can configure it, you can initialize it -so far so good. But if a disk fails you're in trouble, because raidhotadd can't add the replacement disk as a spare - no space left in device list :-( Solution: Probably a check is needed that prevents use of all 12 disks as active devices - we MUST leave at least one entry free for replacement of failed disks. 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