Re: Resetting RAID1 drive as Non-RAID

2012-02-10 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/10/2012 7:15 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a FreeBSD 9.0 server with an Intel RAID card that has two array mirrors of which one has failed. The remote host was not responding and had it reset to find in the RAID utility one of the drives had failed one of the RAID 1 arrays. Perhaps I

Resetting RAID1 drive as Non-RAID

2012-02-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a FreeBSD 9.0 server with an Intel RAID card that has two array mirrors of which one has failed. The remote host was not responding and had it reset to find in the RAID utility one of the drives had failed one of the RAID 1 arrays. Perhaps I shouldn't have, but I told the utility to use the

Re: Moving to RAID1

2010-10-30 Thread krad
reebsd(7.3) dedicated server with one hard disk.It have > >> partitions > >> for root and swap only.I want to setup RAID1 by adding one more hard > >> disk.i > >> found in freebsd handbook about setting up RAID1 > >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-m

Re: Moving to RAID1

2010-10-30 Thread Jerrin
Rihaz On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jerrin wrote: > >> i have a freebsd(7.3) dedicated server with one hard disk.It have >> partitions >> for root and swap only.I want to setup RAID1 by adding one more hard

Re: Moving to RAID1

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jerrin wrote: > i have a freebsd(7.3) dedicated server with one hard disk.It have > partitions > for root and swap only.I want to setup RAID1 by adding one more hard disk.i > found in freebsd handbook about setting up RAID1 > http://www.freebsd.o

Re: Moving to RAID1

2010-10-29 Thread Diego Arias
i have a freebsd(7.3) dedicated server with one hard disk.It have > partitions > for root and swap only.I want to setup RAID1 by adding one more hard disk.i > found in freebsd handbook about setting up RAID1 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html .I only have r

Moving to RAID1

2010-10-29 Thread Jerrin
Hello, i have a freebsd(7.3) dedicated server with one hard disk.It have partitions for root and swap only.I want to setup RAID1 by adding one more hard disk.i found in freebsd handbook about setting up RAID1 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html .I only have remote access to the

Re: Gvinum RAID1+0

2010-02-24 Thread krad
On 24 February 2010 00:59, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 23:11:37 Andrew Klaassen wrote: > > >From the lack of response, am I correct to conclude that Gvinum can't do > > > RAID1+0 (as opposed to RAID0+1)? > > I'll bite. > > Is th

Re: Gvinum RAID1+0

2010-02-23 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 23:11:37 Andrew Klaassen wrote: > >From the lack of response, am I correct to conclude that Gvinum can't do > > RAID1+0 (as opposed to RAID0+1)? I'll bite. Is there a particular reason why you want to use gvinum instead of a combination of g

Re: Gvinum RAID1+0

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Klaassen
>From the lack of response, am I correct to conclude that Gvinum can't do >RAID1+0 (as opposed to RAID0+1)? Thanks. Andrew --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Andrew Klaassen wrote: > Hi. > > Newbie question:  I'm trying to figure out how to > create a stripe-over-mirrors

Gvinum RAID1+0

2010-02-22 Thread Andrew Klaassen
Hi. Newbie question: I'm trying to figure out how to create a stripe-over-mirrors, aka RAID1+0, with Gvinum. The manual gives an example for a mirror-over-stripes, aka RAID0+1, but I can't for the life of me figure out from that example or others I've feebly Googled how to do

Re: ata-raid.c patch for ICH7 RAID1

2009-03-02 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
I can't actually apply this patch to FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. It seems ataraid is something not to be used in FreeBSD so I have started to use gmirror instead. Only downside of it is there are 2 disks shown in boot loader not one so if F1 (first disk goes) goes you have to manually select other disk ju

ata-raid.c patch for ICH7 RAID1

2009-03-01 Thread Tamouh Hakmi
Hi, Has anyone had experience applying this patch to their FreeBSD 6.x setup? http://www.nabble.com/Vital-Patches-for-ataraid-with-Intel-Matrix-RAID-(ICH7)-td16179257.html I've couple of machines using ICH8/ICH9 which seem to exhibit the same problems and would be interested in applying the pat

Help with: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6

2009-01-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
I need help with this. I'm trying to create a software RAID1. I followed the instructions in man page http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrol&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE atacontrol(8) atacontrol(8) wrote: > > [snip] > A quick and

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-20 Thread Henry Karpatskij
On 20.8.2008, at 10.48, DA Forsyth wrote: Good for you. I see I'm a bit late coming in with my advice, which is to follow the instructions at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 with a few mods because you (and I) were not building a new machine. This is the

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-19 Thread Henry Karpatskij
Thanks a lot folks, I managed to get the server working, only one file could not be read from the bad disk, but it wasn't required. It took hours to do it and it certainly will remind me next time I choose to be lazy and install a server to non-mirrored disk. :-) -- Henry Karpatskij http:

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 August 2008 05:39:10 am Henry Karpatskij wrote: > Hi, > > I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been > investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two > new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk > internals, I kn

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Henry Karpatskij wrote: > Hi, > > I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been > investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new > IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk > internals, I know how to install the system and som

Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread Henry Karpatskij
Hi, I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk internals, I know how to install the system and somehow understand the concept

Re: raid1 + degraded (take out one disk) + fatal trap 12 on next reboot

2008-05-03 Thread Roberto Nunnari
en you will have to wipe both disks and regenerate the array and reinstall the OS. That is why you make a backup first when the system is off-duty. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roberto Nunnari Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:35 PM To

RE: raid1 + degraded (take out one disk) + fatal trap 12 on next reboot

2008-05-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roberto Nunnari > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:35 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: raid1 + degraded (take out one disk) + fatal trap 12 on > next reboot > > &

Re: raid1 + degraded (take out one disk) + fatal trap 12 on next reboot

2008-04-29 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Nobody on this, please? :) Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi all! I'm playing with new HW and FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0. I set up raid 1 on two sata disks (fakeraid on ICH9R) and as long as I can see, it seams to work very well. Now I'm trying to simulate 1 disk failure (I just take out a disk and boot ag

Re: ICH7R RAID1 support?

2008-04-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: "Tamouh H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:34:55 -0400 > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Kevin Oberman > > Sent: April 16, 20

RE: ICH7R RAID1 support?

2008-04-16 Thread Tamouh H.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Kevin Oberman > Sent: April 16, 2008 6:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ICH7R RAID1 support? > > Can anyone confirm whether support for RAID1 on the ICH7R

ICH7R RAID1 support?

2008-04-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
Can anyone confirm whether support for RAID1 on the ICH7R is in FreeBSD? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B

RE: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-12-03 Thread Jan Catrysse
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Catrysse > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:18 PM > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary? > > Dear subscribers, > > I am currently running a production s

Re: SV: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-26 Thread Cristian KLEIN
Gert Lynge wrote: >> The disks themselves handle the checksumming to detect bad blocks. >> With modern disks it is *very* rare that a block on the disk goes bad >> without the disk being able to report it it as such. >> This means that if you have a functioning RA

Re: SV: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
means that if you have a functioning RAID1 setup and one of the > >disks report a bad block, then the controller can simply read the > >corresponding block from the other disk, and rewrite it to the disk > >with the bad block. If a disk has problems writing a block it will > >t

SV: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Gert Lynge
>The disks themselves handle the checksumming to detect bad blocks. >With modern disks it is *very* rare that a block on the disk goes bad >without the disk being able to report it it as such. >This means that if you have a functioning RAID1 setup and one of the >disks report a

RE: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Jan Catrysse
> -Original Message- > From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 4:01 PM > To: Jan Catrysse > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary? > > "Jan Catrysse" <

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
se > > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary? > > > > > > "Jan Catrysse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [...] > > This is what I found in a 3Ware manual: > &g

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
"Jan Catrysse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I didn't dig in GEOM because I wondered what happens if the primary > disk fails when two disks are in a RAID1 config? There is no "primary" disk in a GEOM RAID1. If the BIOS has a concept of "primary

RE: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Jan Catrysse
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Moran > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 3:28 PM > To: Jan Catrysse > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary? > > "Jan Catrysse" <

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
ng a production server: > > > FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE > > > Onboard Intel ICH8R Raid 1 with 2x SATA300 500GB HDD Using ATA for > > > Raid1 > > > > > > On Windows systems it is an absolute must to do a Raid > > Synchronisation > > > every onc

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 23/11/2007, Jan Catrysse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:57 PM > > To: Jan Catrysse > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR

RE: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Jan Catrysse
> From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:57 PM > To: Jan Catrysse > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary? > > "Jan Catrysse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
"Jan Catrysse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear subscribers, > > I am currently running a production server: > FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE > Onboard Intel ICH8R Raid 1 with 2x SATA300 500GB HDD > Using ATA for Raid1 > > On Windows systems it is an absolut

RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-22 Thread Jan Catrysse
Dear subscribers, I am currently running a production server: FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE Onboard Intel ICH8R Raid 1 with 2x SATA300 500GB HDD Using ATA for Raid1 On Windows systems it is an absolute must to do a Raid Synchronisation every once and a while to maintain data consistency. I am some what

Re: Increase Disk Size in a gmirror RAID1

2007-08-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 26/08/07, Charles Uchu Strader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it looks like I came up with a resolution myself on this. Here's a > post for posterity or any comments: > > > > > > What I've done so far is to forget da1 from the gm0 mirror, restart, > > and put the 73GB into drive bay two. But

Re: Increase Disk Size in a gmirror RAID1

2007-08-26 Thread Charles Uchu Strader
So it looks like I came up with a resolution myself on this. Here's a post for posterity or any comments: What I've done so far is to forget da1 from the gm0 mirror, restart, and put the 73GB into drive bay two. But now I'm at bit lost at the process to follow to achieve my desired result.

Increase Disk Size in a gmirror RAID1

2007-08-26 Thread Charles Uchu Strader
Hello. This is my first post onto the list, so please correct me if this is not the correct place. The situation is I currently have a machine running gmirror RAID1 on two 36GB disks. That's all fine and dandy, except that those disks are running out of space (temporarily alleviated th

Re: Cant install freebsd6.2 on RAID1

2007-04-19 Thread Toomas Aas
N, 19 apr 2007 kirjutas "М. Павел" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Good Day. I▓ve got a problem: Server: - Motherboard Intel SE7320ep2 with integrated, simple, but fully hardware raid controller. - Two HDDs Seagate 200 gb combined into raid 1 (mirror). The HDD has 3 sections: 3 √ not formated

Cant install freebsd6.2 on RAID1

2007-04-19 Thread М. Павел
Good Day. I▓ve got a problem: Server: - Motherboard Intel SE7320ep2 with integrated, simple, but fully hardware raid controller. - Two HDDs Seagate 200 gb combined into raid 1 (mirror). The HDD has 3 sections: 3 √ not formated 1 √ win2003 server 2 √ keeps logic drives for windows (th

FreeBSD 6.1 installer doesn't recognize ICH5R RAID1

2006-07-25 Thread Darren David
hi all- doing a clean install to 6.1, and i've decided to set up my system drives as RAID 1 now that I see that 6.1 has support for the ICH5R raid controller. My BIOS recognizes the SATA RAID 1 array correctly, but the FreeBSD installer still sees 'ad4' and 'ad6' as two separate drives. The i

Slow RAID1 with gmirror

2006-07-21 Thread Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
Hi. I've been setting up some gmirror based software RAID1s lately, and I keep running into some odd behaviour. Writing to the RAID1 runs at near to normal rates, as expected. But reading from the RAID1 runs at half the normal rates, while I expected to get double rates. I've test

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Jason King wrote: The instructions say to use ad0 and ad1 as the /dev names but those devices don't exist on my server. The device names are da0 and da1. I'd be glad to post anything you wish, but I don't know what the dmesg is, or how I get it. Can you tell me where I can get that information?

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jason King
rom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason King >>Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:37 AM >>To: Jerry McAllister >>Cc: Andrea Venturoli; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: Re: Software RAID1 >> >> >>Also, I noticed th

RE: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason King > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:37 AM > To: Jerry McAllister > Cc: Andrea Venturoli; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Software RAID1 > >

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jason King
sday, September 15, 2005 10:27 AM >>To: Jerry McAllister >>Cc: Andrea Venturoli; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: Re: Software RAID1 >> >> >>Ok, I made the correction and I'm still getting these errors: >> >>mail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/de

RE: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason King > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:27 AM > To: Jerry McAllister > Cc: Andrea Venturoli; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Software RAID1 > > >

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jason King
t;> > >ado, ad1adnn are IDE devices. da0, da1dann are SCSI devices. >Use whichever you have. > >jerry > > > >>Jason >> >>Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> >> >> >>>Jason King wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jason King
a Venturoli wrote: > Jason King wrote: > >> I am having trouble with THESE instructions: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ >> >> I'm trying to create a RAID1 system with FreeBSD and the instructions >> are not working. I'm getting this error: >

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jason King
are SCSI devices. >Use whichever you have. > >jerry > > > >>Jason >> >>Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> >> >> >>>Jason King wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I am having trouble with THESE instr

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jason King
gt;Use whichever you have. > >jerry > > > >>Jason >> >>Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> >> >> >>>Jason King wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I am having trouble with THESE instructions: >>>>htt

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
gt; http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > >> > >> I'm trying to create a RAID1 system with FreeBSD and the instructions > >> are not working. I'm getting this error: > >> > >> mail# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0 > >> Cannot access provider

RE: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason King > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:16 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Software RAID1 > > > I am having trouble with THESE instructions:

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
Andrea Venturoli wrote: I used that tutorial on different machines and it has always worked. Maybe you have to substitute da0 with something else, that depends on your hardware. Can you provide a your dmesg at boot time? bye av. Hi Jason: 1) please do NOT top post (i.e., don't reply @ th

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jason King
Jason Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Jason King wrote: > >> I am having trouble with THESE instructions: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ >> >> I'm trying to create a RAID1 system with FreeBSD and the instructions >> are not working. I'm getting

Re: Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Jason King wrote: I am having trouble with THESE instructions: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ I'm trying to create a RAID1 system with FreeBSD and the instructions are not working. I'm getting this error: mail# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0 Cannot access provider da0. The

Software RAID1

2005-09-15 Thread Jason King
I am having trouble with THESE instructions: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ I'm trying to create a RAID1 system with FreeBSD and the instructions are not working. I'm getting this error: mail# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0 Cannot access provider da0. The command is trying to add

Re: installing 5.4 on RAID1 using Promise TX2200

2005-07-22 Thread Stefan Foulis
I think I just cracked it! After initially creating the mirror with the live filesystem from the installation cd, I used the expert install mode... there is an option to re-scan for devices there... then the ar0 device is present. I'm installing now. hope it works. - stefan On Jul 22, 2005

installing 5.4 on RAID1 using Promise TX2200

2005-07-22 Thread Stefan Foulis
I just got an Promise TX2200 "RAID" Controller and 2x250GB SATA Drives for my new webserver. As soon as I define a raid of some sort, the installation cd just reboots the system. I think that happens at the stage where the kernel should be loaded. I've used the TX2000 with IDE drives before

Re: RAID1 and FreeBSD

2005-07-10 Thread Casey Scott
On Sunday 10 July 2005 05:21 pm, Ceasar Navato wrote: > Good day. > > Please help. I have a motherboard that has a SATA > RAID support. I enabled it and configured the RAID > using RAID1 through the BIOS. My question is, do I > also have to configure RAID1 in

RAID1 and FreeBSD

2005-07-10 Thread Ceasar Navato
Good day. Please help. I have a motherboard that has a SATA RAID support. I enabled it and configured the RAID using RAID1 through the BIOS. My question is, do I also have to configure RAID1 in FreeBSD so that it automatically mirrors what is in the first disk or my hardware RAID is enough

Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-07-01 Thread Danny Howard
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:13:50PM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > swapoff="YES" > into /etc/rc.conf -since it was recommended. It is still there > can I remove it now or will there be any problems? I think they might have "fixed" that in 5.4, but it doesn't huirt to have it there. I've been careful

Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-07-01 Thread P.U.Kruppa
.conf . Now my raid1 device doesn't show any swap partition. Is this o.k., or should it be reactivated somehow? Uhmmm, can you elaborate on that? O.K. I will try to: # gmirror list # mount # swapinfo all show the about the same stuff as yours. During Raid setup I inserted a line swapoff=

Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-06-30 Thread Danny Howard
P.U.Kruppa wrote: As far as I can see, booting from gm0 works fine. There are only two questions left: 1) I installed FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE and thus I put - as recommended (or was that only for 5.3 ???) - swapoff="YES into my /etc/rc.conf . Now my raid1 device doesn't sho

raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-06-30 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi! I have to set up a new proxy for our school. Since I found two identical IDE disks, I gave a software raid1 with gmirror a try. I set the two disk as primary and secondary master, ie. ad0 and ad2, and followed Ralf Engelschall's excellent HowTo at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/m

Supporting Hardware RAID1 at Intel SRCS16 controller by FreeBSD 5.4 Release

2005-06-24 Thread Карпов Евгений
Hello. I'm using a pare of SATA Disks as RAID1 (Mirrored) Array on Intel SRCS16 controller. And I made this type of array in a BIOS of a controller. Then I had install a FreeBSD 5.4 Release I had not one disk (such ar0), but 2 different disks (such ad4 and ad6) . So If i will b

Re: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Christian Hiris
On Saturday 18 June 2005 16:51:16, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hence, the aftermath on a properly booted system: > > pearl# atacontrol status 1 > ar1: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY > > pearl# atacontrol status 0 > ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad2 ad0 status: R

RE: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
eem to be probed (and numbered) > first. I think there is no way to get your original raid back > to ar0 if you also use your mainboard controllers. Hence, the aftermath on a properly booted system: pearl# atacontrol status 1 ar1: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY pearl# atacontrol statu

RE: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
anually /dev/ar1s1N to /usr /var and /home, remounted the / filesystem rw, ee the /etc/fstab and changed all the mountpoints to ar1, rebooted, and all is well! I now have 2 RAID1 configs on the same box, and am successfully booting off of the promise raid properly before the motherboard disks!! Thanks

Re: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-17 Thread Titus von Boxberg
Here is what I did, and the subsequent effect: (Remember, ad4 and ad6 (promise drives) make up the bootable ar0): # after 2 brand new drives installed: - atacontrol create RAID1 ad0 ad2 ...at which point it said it was successful, and designated the new RAID config as ad1. After reboot, the

RE: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Please clarify. You said you added two new disks to the > 'regular ide chain' and then created another RAID1 config for > those disks. > > Are the new drives connected to the Promise RAID controller, > or the motherboard's IDE controllers? > The orig

Re: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-17 Thread Ken Ebling
On Jun 17, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hey all, I've been running my 4.11 box on a Promise RAID one card with no difficulty. Today I added 2 new disks to the regular IDE chain, and used atacontrol to create a second RAID1 configuration for those 2 new disks. After I cr

Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hey all, I've been running my 4.11 box on a Promise RAID one card with no difficulty. Today I added 2 new disks to the regular IDE chain, and used atacontrol to create a second RAID1 configuration for those 2 new disks. After I created with atacontrol, it successfully told me an 'ar1

RAİD1 installing on FreeBSD5.3 on IBM xseries server

2005-04-27 Thread Derya ESEL ALTINEŞİK
Hi, We have buy new IBM xseries 8482 server with two scsi disk and want to install Freebsd 5.3 to first disk and mirror to second disk. I havent found any link or doc about this. Can you please guide me? Regards... Derya ESEL Akdeniz University Antalya/Turkey _

Re[2]: raid1

2005-04-09 Thread Hexren
quot;Sandy Rutherford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: ; "Spades" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 5:46 PM >> Subject: Re: raid1 >> >> >> >> On Feb 19, 2005, at 12:37 AM, Sandy Rutherford wrote: >> >>

Re: raid1

2005-02-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
D]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: Re: raid1 On Feb 19, 2005, at 12:37 AM, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:51:53 -0700, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On Feb 18, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Spades wrote: hi, my server hardware

Re: raid1

2005-02-19 Thread Spades
D]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: Re: raid1 On Feb 19, 2005, at 12:37 AM, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:51:53 -0700, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On Feb 18, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Spades wrote: hi, my server hardware

Re: raid1

2005-02-18 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
4 60692300 0%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev ... What do you expect to see? A raid1 is a mirror set and to the OS would probably look like a single drive if it truly is a HW raid This should be true of any hardware RAID level, not just RAID1. The HW RAID presents logic

Re: raid1

2005-02-18 Thread Sandy Rutherford
ash-2.05b$ df >> Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on >> /dev/ad4s1a 66008394 35424 60692300 0%/ >> devfs 1 10 100%/dev >> ... > What do you expect to see? > A raid1 is a mirror set and to the OS wou

Re: raid1

2005-02-18 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
10 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1d 66008394 24 60727700 0%/home /dev/ad4s1e 10154158 683442 8658384 7%/usr /dev/ad4s1f 8172302982 7517536 0%/var -bash-2.05b$ What do you expect to see? A raid1 is a mirror set and to the OS would probably look like a single

Re: raid1

2005-02-18 Thread Josh Paetzel
/dev/ad4s1a 66008394 35424 60692300 0%/ > > devfs 1 10 100%/dev > > /dev/ad4s1d 66008394 24 60727700 0%/home > > /dev/ad4s1e 10154158 683442 8658384 7%/usr > > /dev/ad4s1f 8172302982 7517536 0%/

Re: raid1

2005-02-18 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
8658384 7%/usr /dev/ad4s1f 8172302982 7517536 0%/var -bash-2.05b$ What do you expect to see? A raid1 is a mirror set and to the OS would probably look like a single drive if it truly is a HW raid Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

raid1

2005-02-18 Thread Spades
hi, my server hardware supports hardware raid, i installed it as per normal freebsd 5.3, however i see no difference in df. its using 2 x 160GB, what do i do during the installation to enable the raid? mobo: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7320/X6DVL-EG.cfm -bash-2.05b$ df

Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance

2005-01-28 Thread Christian Hiris
On Thursday 27 January 2005 23:12:23, Chad Morland wrote: > > http://members.chello.at/freebsd-5.3/bonnie-gmirror/summary > > http://members.chello.at/freebsd-5.3/bonnie-gmirror/detail > > I expect to see data transfer rate increase when you break the mirror. > RAID1 has the

Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance

2005-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chad Morland wrote: What happens in terms of performance when a drive in a RAID1 system fails? Will disk access be slower because it attempts to read/write to a failed disk or will performance be faster because it doesn't need to do half the work it usually does? Read access will become s

Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance

2005-01-27 Thread Chad Morland
> http://members.chello.at/freebsd-5.3/bonnie-gmirror/summary > http://members.chello.at/freebsd-5.3/bonnie-gmirror/detail I expect to see data transfer rate increase when you break the mirror. RAID1 has the higest disk overhead of all RAID configurations and is very inefficient in that

Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance

2005-01-27 Thread Christian Hiris
On Thursday 27 January 2005 21:14:21, Chad Morland wrote: > What happens in terms of performance when a drive in a RAID1 system > fails? Will disk access be slower because it attempts to read/write to > a failed disk or will performance be faster because it doesn't need to > do

Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance

2005-01-27 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:14:46PM -0500, Chad Morland wrote: > What happens in terms of performance when a drive in a RAID1 system > fails? Will disk access be slower because it attempts to read/write to > a failed disk or will performance be faster because it doesn't need to >

RAID1, a failed disk and performance

2005-01-27 Thread Chad Morland
What happens in terms of performance when a drive in a RAID1 system fails? Will disk access be slower because it attempts to read/write to a failed disk or will performance be faster because it doesn't need to do half the work it usually does? I couldn't really find any online resources

RAID1, failed drive, performance?

2005-01-27 Thread Chad Morland
What happens in terms of performance when a drive in a RAID1 system fails? Will disk access be slower because it attempts to read/write to a failed disk or will performance be faster because it doesn't need to do half the work it usually does?

Re: Setting up RAID1 with gmirror

2005-01-27 Thread Christian Hiris
On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:05:14, Andrew Lewis wrote: [...] > > -bash-2.05b# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad0 > Provider ad0 too small. > > ^- Oops. This tells you that the mediasize of your disk ad0 is smaller than the mediasize of your mirror on ad2. In simple words, disk ad0 seems to be smalle

Setting up RAID1 with gmirror

2005-01-27 Thread Andrew Lewis
Got a live system I'm trying to setup RAID1 on, using gmirror. This is my first attempt at such a thing. Two hard-disks: ad0 has a UFS2+softupdates formatted / partition and a swap partition. ad2 is a clean disk. I've been following the instructions @: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/

Problems with dump of an atacontrol-ed RAID1 array

2005-01-18 Thread Jonathan Reeder
I have an ICH6 SATA RAID controller that I have set up with atacontrol to behave as a RAID1 array. The array (ar0) consists of ad4 and ad6. Last night I started a dump like so: # dump -0Luaf /dev/da0s1 / to *hopefully* dump my root filesystem (ar0s1a) to a usb storage device. Now here is where

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Derek
Toomas Aas wrote: But if it is necessary, it should be possible to bring the machine up to single user mode and modify the fstab there, right? Given, of course, that the root partition is left on ar0s1a. Yes, that makes fine sense. Although if you want to feel _really_ good about it, have a live

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 January 2005 18:47, Toomas Aas wrote: > Derek wrote: > But if it is necessary, it should be possible to bring the machine up to > single user mode and modify the fstab there, right? Given, of course, > that the root partition is left on ar

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Toomas Aas
Derek wrote: Toomas Aas wrote: 1. Attach one of the new drives to free ICH4 IDE port on motherboard, partition it and transfer the data using dump/tar. At this stage, I would recommend doing this in single user mode, to keep filesystem modifications during the procedure down. Yes, that was my

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Derek
Toomas Aas wrote: 1. Attach one of the new drives to free ICH4 IDE port on motherboard, partition it and transfer the data using dump/tar. At this stage, I would recommend doing this in single user mode, to keep filesystem modifications during the procedure down. I typically use dump for all pa

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