I went into the BIOS of the radi cintroller again, removed the drives, disabled the staggered spin up function, and reinitialized the drives, made a new raid 5 array with background initialization. In /etc/rc.conf I put "rr232x_enable="YES"" Rebooted the system and the drives did not fil to start channel. /Klaus _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"