Re: RaidTools Upgrade

1998-11-09 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
the error message was probably something like 'unsupported raid array version'? Use the --upgrade switch in mkraid, it upgrades your array without losing data. But the 0.90 driver is still alpha, so be careful. -- mingo On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Fabio Mirotti wrote: > > > Just a question: >

Re: raid upgrade problems & questions

1998-11-09 Thread Martin H. VanLeeuwen
MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > > hm, md.c line 1400 is because there is some invalid sort of chunksize in > the superblock. what chunksize have you specified? > > Ingo > Good question, actually I don't know what the original chunksize was prior to changing raidtab & running "mkraid --upgrade", I

Re: Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-11-09 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 16:44:56 -0400 (EST), Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Me, for a start! I found it very useful to be able to combine together >> a few scraps of spare space on a number of mounted disks to create a >> scratch partition of useful size. > Why not use striping inst

Re: Plans for hot-adding and removing mirrors?

1998-11-09 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:59:04 +0100, Luca Berra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > freeze the log, backup, unfreeze like vxfs (Veritas) does >> >> A lfs does make this easier, yes, but there are other ways to do it. In >> particular, you can achieve the same effect at the block device level if >

raid0145-19981108-2.1.127.bz2 made md.c.rej (was Re: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 and LVM version 0.90, 1998.11.05

1998-11-09 Thread Hisaaki Shibata
From: MOLNAR Ingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > kernel 2.1.125 and 2.0.35. (a 2.1.127 port will follow as soon as 2.1.127 > gets out) Also this package contains a prototype (kernel-space and MD I did follwing operations... # cd /usr/src # rm -rf ./linux # bzip2 -cd linux-2.1.127.tar.bz2 | tar xf - # c

ICP Vortex Stats

1998-11-09 Thread Chris J. Magnuson
Here are some stats on a 16-bit fast wide single-channel ICP Vortex PCI RAID-5 card on a 3-drive array. The drives are Fujitsu 9.1 Gig narrow M2949 drives (14.x Meg/sec theoretical limit on speed). The system is a 233MHz Supermicro Pentium MMX on Redhat Linux 5.1, with 128 Megs of RAM. When I r

RaidTools Upgrade

1998-11-09 Thread Fabio Mirotti
Just a question: My machine is running a patched kernel-2.1.115 and raidtools 0.50 in RAID1 configuration. I'd like to upgrade kernel & raidtools. I tried a to patch a kernel 2.1.124 & install raidtools 0.90 but my system couldn't boot

Error when apply patch 2.1.127

1998-11-09 Thread Kent
I have got a '1 out of 9 hunks FAILED' when apply the raidtools patch, will it affect anything? Your opiniion are highly appreciated... Kent

Re: Status Update on DPT and Storage Manager for Linux

1998-11-09 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Mark J. Bailey. > >Is there any >possible problems having BOTH a PM3334UDW and a PM2144UW controller in >the same box? FWIW, we've a PM3334UW running an external DPT RAID box and a PM2144UW in out main box here (the 2144's just running a scanner though). No conflicts. The 3334 and ex

kernel autostart does not seam to work

1998-11-09 Thread Anthony Hams
Hi, I don't know if this problem got treated yet, because I just joined this list, so here goes: I just installed the newest raid-patches (19981106-C) into a 2.0.35 kernel, and I also use the newest tools (19981105-0.90). I gave all my raid-partitions the 0xfd type, but the kernel only finds t

Problem with raid0 and Linux/SPARC 2.0.35

1998-11-09 Thread Jonas Oberg
I've connected a few SCSI-disks to one of my SUN ELC's, running Linux/SPARC 2.0.35. I've setup an /etc/mdtab with mdcreate so that; | /dev/md0raid0,4k,0,1c2518a6 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3 but whenever I run mdadd -a I get the following errors; | beldaran:~# mdadd -a | /dev/sdb3: Device or