On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 16:25, Richard Welty wrote: > it's two days later, and the drive is still rebuilding. just how long should > such a rebuild take? anyone know? there are no error messages; the > ibm RaidMan utility beeps every so often, but the drive is simply labeled > "rebuilding" in its properties panel. Richard, It only too my Adaptec 2000S zero-channel RAID card 12 hours to do an initial build on a 1.1T RAID5 array from nine 146G drives. Two days to hardare re-mirror a pair of (much smaller?) drives sounds 'way off. -- Doc Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p "Perfection is the enemy of good enough." -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov