Re: What is the BEST RAID Controller ?

1998-10-29 Thread Chris J. Magnuson
>On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Chris J. Magnuson wrote: > >> As far as speed and benchmarks, I'm not sure how you are going to get much >> information on that. Someone would have to have all the different cards >> and compare them all in the same system making sure there was ample cache, > >I'd settle for

Re: What is the BEST RAID Controller ?

1998-10-29 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Chris J. Magnuson wrote: > As far as speed and benchmarks, I'm not sure how you are going to get much > information on that. Someone would have to have all the different cards > and compare them all in the same system making sure there was ample cache, I'd settle for just s

raid0145 2.0.35 and depmod

1998-10-29 Thread Martin H. VanLeeuwen
Hi i'm getting these errors after applying raid0145-19981005-C-2.0.35.gz /lib/modules/2.0.35/block/linear.o *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.35/block/loop.o end_that_request_first end_that_request_last /lib/modules/2.0.35/block/raid0.o *** Unresolved symbols in m

Adaptec RAID controllers?

1998-10-29 Thread Danny Yee
I'm after a raid controller for a new server (we're moving from Digital Unix to Linux, yay!) and our supplier offers the Adaptec AAA-131SA... Does anyone know if there is software to drive this under Linux? (I want to do RAID-5.) Danny Yee Network Administrator Department of Anatomy & Histology

[Fwd: Module counts and the MD driver]

1998-10-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
FYI -- Harald Hoyer ««»» mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ««»» http://hot.spotline.de ··· news: gotcha I just noticed, rather painfully I'll have to admit (i.e. BOOM), that the MD driver doesn't increase the module

RAID0 problems..

1998-10-29 Thread Stojan Rancic
Hello I'm having some problems with RAID0 on a RedHat 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35 here. I've downloaded a fresh 2.0.35 kernel, patched it with raid0145-19981005-C-2.0.35 patch from the alpha dir,recompiled/rebooted, downloaded raidtools- 19981005-B-0.90.tar, compiled it per instructions (/autogen.

Re: Autodetecting RAID1 array?

1998-10-29 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Eugene Blanchard wrote: > I have raid1 over raid0 (mirroring over striping) on 2.0.35 kernel > patched to raid0145-1005.. and raidtools-0.90. I can autodetect the > raid0 partitions (type set to 0xfd) but can't autodetect the mirrors. I > can manually start it by typing raid

Re: What is the BEST RAID Controller ?

1998-10-29 Thread Chris J. Magnuson
>We are looking to impliment hardware RAID5 and wanted some good advice >on which controller is the best to use. I use the ICP-Vortex cards. The (bad) support I got from DPT was enough to make me not use their cards, the support for ICP-Vortex has been excellent, easily in the Top 5 of all time

Re: howto upgrade / autorun no longer possible with newest patch/raidtools??

1998-10-29 Thread Claudia =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller
Craig W. Hansen wrote: > I had a similar problem as your second question, but it may not be the > > same problem as yours. I had a 2.1.124 kernel source tree already > configured to use RAID5, and then patched it with the latest patchset > and > recompiled the kernel. The autorun partitions wer

What is the BEST RAID Controller ?

1998-10-29 Thread Richard J. Sears
We are looking to impliment hardware RAID5 and wanted some good advice on which controller is the best to use. Speed and reliability are important factors to us. We have been using a DPT raid controller with 64MB of RAM on it for over a year under Linux, but I have not been all that impressed

Autodetecting RAID1 array?

1998-10-29 Thread Eugene Blanchard
I have raid1 over raid0 (mirroring over striping) on 2.0.35 kernel patched to raid0145-1005.. and raidtools-0.90. I can autodetect the raid0 partitions (type set to 0xfd) but can't autodetect the mirrors. I can manually start it by typing raidstart /dev/md0 and it works fine. Can I set the partit

Re: howto upgrade / autorun no longer possible with newestpatch/raidtools??

1998-10-29 Thread Craig W. Hansen
I had a similar problem as your second question, but it may not be the same problem as yours. I had a 2.1.124 kernel source tree already configured to use RAID5, and then patched it with the latest patchset and recompiled the kernel. The autorun partitions were not recognized at boot. The probl