gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> writes: > It is a separate 6 port sata controller because the mobo is out of > ports. There is no obvious lag during bios post or grub booting it. That *should* rule out DNS then, unless something really strange is going on. What does mdadm tell you about the raid device, and its component devices? Is the filesystem on the raid healthy? Cheers, Tom