hello, I have here a bunch of new HP DL380G3. Konfiguration: System: Debian Sarge Kernel : 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4-rc2 and so on. Hardware: HP DL380G3 Raid Controller: 5i with newest firmware caue teh old one has an bug on hotplugging. Problem: The server is configured with 2 ( each 36 GB ) harddisks RAID1 for system and 4 harddisks ( each 72 GB) RAID10 for data. After installation the system and installing 2.6 I try to format the RAID10 array it doesn't matter if ext2 or ext3. After the message: Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: the system freezed complete. No error message nothing. No disk aktivity Ruben -- Ruben Puettmann ruben@puettmann.net http://www.puettmann.net