Re: FAQ update
Yo Luca! On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Edward Schernau wrote: > > i'd add: dont use netscape to fetch patches from mingo's site, it hurts > > use lynx/wget/curl/lftp > > Works fine for me. We are not worried about you. We are worried about mingos FTP server. If you access an FPT server with Netscape it puts a much greater load on the server than if you access it with a plain old ftp client. RGDS GARY ------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
Re: Comparing 2.2.15 with 2.4.0-test5
Yo Holger! On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Holger Kiehl wrote: > Also while playing mp3 and downloading files via serial modem from the > internet, 2.4.0-test5 just locked up with no messages in syslog. The machine > was just dead, it did not answer to any pings. I have had similar problems with all the 2.4.0test* kernels. They work fine for a while on my Dual PIII and then lock up hard. under load. Not all hardware seems affected but I have not tracked it down. RGDS GARY ------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
Linux 2.4.0 test3
Yo All! I have had problems with crashes since 2.3.99pre3 so I have been trying all the new kernels. Just tried 2.4.0-test3. It fails in kernel/timer.c unless I have SMP enabled. Then it fails in our beloved md.c. Looks like someone changed "priority" to "nice" in the task_struct. So I changed current->priority to current->nice is 4 places and it compiled OK. Dunno if this was the right thing to do but fingers are crossed. RGDS GARY ----------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
Linux 2.3.99pre8
Yo All! I just set up Linux 2.3.99pre8 on my SMP/RAID host. The RAID1/RAID5 support is in the official tree! Here is what they call it in the config: "DANGEROUS! RAID1/RAID5 code" A quick test shows it seems to work for me, except there is no RAID autodetect support. Still, this IS progress. I also see a few new files at http://people.redhat.com/mingo dated May 12, but since I am not sure what version of 2.3.99pre? they are against I leave that for anyother day. Anyone had any luck with them?? RGDS GARY ------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
Re: IDE Controllers
Yo Andre! I know that, I am using Mingo's RAID-1 patch. Sort of figured that should be obvious on the linux-raid group... RGDS GARY On Fri, 5 May 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > RUDE surprize for you > > Hardware RAID 1 under promise is not hardware! > > Details.drives and host bios rev (promise)? > > On Fri, 5 May 2000, Gary E. Miller wrote: > > > Yo Andre! > > > > 2.2.14 did not work for me. I have a dual PIII with onboard UDMA33 > > controller running RAID1. Very stable. When I just moved the > > two drives to a Promise Ultra66 the system became very unstable > > (uptimes in minutes). YMMV. ----------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: IDE Controllers
Yo Andre! 2.2.14 did not work for me. I have a dual PIII with onboard UDMA33 controller running RAID1. Very stable. When I just moved the two drives to a Promise Ultra66 the system became very unstable (uptimes in minutes). YMMV. RGDS GARY On Fri, 5 May 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > http://www.linux-ide.org/ > > Yes PDC20246/PDC20262 are SMP safe. > > On Fri, 5 May 2000, Edward Muller wrote: > > > I was wondering which add in PCI IDE controllers are good to use and SMP safe > > with a 2.2.14 or 2.2.15 kernel. I did some looking for Ultra66 controllers and > > the only thing I could find that was supported was the Ultra66 from > > Promise. ----------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]
Yo Vinny! Hehehe, With modern DIMM and SIMM parity RAM == ECC RAM. No need for pairs and no ECC is actually done on the memory module. Plain RAM is 64 bits wide these days. Parity/ECC RAM is 72 bits wide. The extra 8 bits are used by the RAM controller chip on the motherboard. Some really cheap chip sets can not make use of these bits. If you have the extra bits then you can tell your chip set to use them as parity (error detection only) or ECC (single bit error correction and double bit error detection). ECC is obviously better if your motherboard supports it and takes no extra RAM over parity. Unless you beat your vendor over the head with a stick they will usually try to sell you 64 bit RAM. Go for the 72 bits and then your motherboard (if it is smart enough) will warn you of RAM problems before tey affect your system. RGDS GARY On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Vinny wrote: > Forgive my ignorance on the subject but what difference > would parity ram have made? Parity RAM forces you to buy ram > in identical sets of 2 right? While I'm asking ecc has built in error > checking, right? > > "Gary E. Miller" wrote: > > > > Yo Vinny! > > > > And of course this time you will remember to only by RAM with parity! > > > > RGDS > > GARY > > > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Vinny wrote: > > > > > Ding Ding > > > Yu win the prize! > > > memtest immediately reported that one of my 128M > > > dimms was bad. Taking it back to the store tommorow. > > > Thank you very much! > > > > > > "Georg P. Israel" wrote: > > > > > > > > Vince, > > > > > > > > I'm pretty sure you have some bad memory modules in you machine. > > > > Make a mem test e.g. memtest86 > > > > to be sure that your memory is ok. > > > > > > > > Georg > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > > > Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Xaymaca Studios http://www.blendermania.com > > > > > > > ----------- > > Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 > > -- > Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Xaymaca Studios http://www.blendermania.com > --- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
Re: [gbaker@hendrix.amd.com: Re: VM: killing...]
Yo Vinny! And of course this time you will remember to only by RAM with parity! RGDS GARY On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Vinny wrote: > Ding Ding > Yu win the prize! > memtest immediately reported that one of my 128M > dimms was bad. Taking it back to the store tommorow. > Thank you very much! > > "Georg P. Israel" wrote: > > > > Vince, > > > > I'm pretty sure you have some bad memory modules in you machine. > > Make a mem test e.g. memtest86 > > to be sure that your memory is ok. > > > > Georg > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Xaymaca Studios http://www.blendermania.com > --- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
raid-2.3.99-5-x1
Yo All! I just noticed two new files at: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/ They are: raid-2.3.99-5-A1 raid-2.3.99-5-B1 A1 seems to add just the autodetect stuff and B1 the rest of it. I patched linux2.3.99pre5 with it and tried to compile. It seemed to be missing xor.h and was looking for md.h and raid1.h in the wrong place. I took xor.h from the 2.2.14 patch, put in links to the rest, and tried to compile. I got a bunch of errors like: raid1.c:56: `raid1_conf_t' undeclared (first use in this function) Anybody had any luck with this?? Sure hope this makes the canonical kernel soon. Guess I have to stop procrastinateing and go back to my 1040... RGDS GARY --- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
Re: scsi resets/feature request
Yo Paul! SCA2 drives (i.e. SCSI with that odd connector) have pins of different lenghts. This allows sequencing of ground, power and signal while hot-swapping drives. Some brands of drive carriers also have this feature. RGDS GARY On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Paul Jakma wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, David Robinson wrote: > > To my knowledge hot swap drives are no different from normal > drives except you can pause the SCSI bus before pulling them > out/in. > > Never heard of being able to pause the scsi bus, sorry. from what > i can tell, the only difference between normal drives and hot-swaps > is mechanical so as to reduce stress on the bus during > mating/unmating. > > One problem with Software RAID is that most of us have the two > drives (In the case of a mirror system) on the same SCSI bus. > This causes problems with the card trying to contact a dead drive > and doing a SCSI- Reset will reset the whole SCSI bus and stop > the working drive from talking to the Host. If the driver goes > silly and sends many SCSI resets down the SCSI bus your machine > will lockup as the RAID driver won't be able to talk to the other > working drive. This happened to me in a test of my mirror. It > only happened a few times.. There was nothing I could do about it > as the only spare SCSI bus I had was much slower then the one the > drive was on:-( > > i think this more a flaw in linux's scsi error handling. it's not > very clever about it. And trying to access a dead device can hang > linux. The BusLogic driver itself seems to do a good job with > error handling. > > regards, > -- > Paul Jakma > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hibernia.clubi.ie > PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt > --- > Fortune: > Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to > see it tried on him personally. > -- Abraham Lincoln > > > RGDS GARY --- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
