I've asked this a couple of times; even had a Mitec sales engineer promising to
e-mail me on this subject, but there doesn't appear to be a simple answer. The
suggestion that made the most sense, was to get a 3ware 6200 hardware raid card
(about $125) use that instead of the software raid. The car
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> In case of a drive failure in e-smith software raid 1 what would be the
> procedure to restore the system back to normal. Anybody has a How to?
Found this document:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
Which states in Chapter 6:
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> I've asked this a couple of times; even had a Mitec sales engineer
promising to
> e-mail me on this subject, but there doesn't appear to be a simple answer.
The
> suggestion th
With software RAID (or indeed any RAID formation) I strongly recommend you
break the RAID and re-add it at install time (both disks for thoroughness)
so you know what to do when it happens. Just power down and disconnect
power and cable from one of the disks, reconnect power & make sure it bo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In case of a drive failure in e-smith software raid 1 what would be the
> procedure to restore the system back to normal. Anybody has a How to?
I have a HOWTO in the queue on precisely this subject. I have been
working on getting V5 docs out the door, and post-V5 am
I will try it out this weekend.
Trev.
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> From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 6:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] RAID 1
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:57:10PM +0200, Brandon Friedman
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> Is there way to check the status of the raid partition?
>
> How do we know it is really working? Other than physical disconnecting one
> drive?
>
> If one drive crashes , how do you reinitialise the mirror o
* Gordon Rowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001211 14:15]:
> > Will there be inclusion of RAID 0
>
> No, RAID0 is just plain unsafe. If a disk crashes you have junk as far
> as the head can scan :-) With RAID1 you can use one of the mirror halves.
>
> RAID0+1 (sometimes called RAID10) may be a possibi
Dan,
Many thanks for your reply. Umm (embarrassed look) yes, Raid 1 is what I
installed - standard e-smith settings. The two disks are both Seagate
drives, both 4 GB, but have different P/Ns. I will have to annoy the family
at the weekend and take the server offline...
At 06:53 10/7/2001, Dan
At 20:14 10/7/2001, Des Dougan wrote:
>I will have to annoy the family at the weekend and take the server offline...
Oh my... Never a truer word spoken. I've basically been down 24 hours, all
in, but am finally up again with one minor problem (of which more later).
I did a backup to desktop (no
Jason,
Thanks for the heads-up about the question. I'll include a sentence in
the manual about supporting both SCSI and IDE.
Thanks,
Dan
Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Jason Hammond wrote:
>
> > Is raid 1 support only available for scsi bus systems. I am assuming so,
> > but i
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Jason Hammond wrote:
> Is raid 1 support only available for scsi bus systems. I am assuming so,
> but in the manual it does not specify this. If you can use raid 1 with ide
> thats great..
The RAID 1 support that has been added is the linux software
implementation. It wor
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