Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

(And, because of a bug, I'm hoping you're running SLES9 SP1 with a
kernel updated to post-SP1, because that one was broken with DM/md
stacking due to an oversight... But then, you'd have seen an oops
already ;-)
 

wish i had seen an oops, because that was it - version 2.6.5-7.155.29 
works fine now.

many thanks!

Actually, in the future you may want to annoy the Novell / SUSE support
organization with questions about SLES9 kernels, because they are fairly
different from mainline ;-)

 

i will focus on mainline-kernels in future... ;-)

-sven