problems with raid0 and RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1998.12.14, 2.0.36/2.1.131-ac9

1998-12-27 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I applied the patch to 2.1.132 (it needed some help, but it seems to be ok). I wanted to boot from my raid0-device (created with raidtools 0.42pre3). This used to work fine till 2.1.123. Till then I get a oops ( which I mentioned on this list a couple of times). So now I applied the patch to see

Re: software raid chunk size | slight correction

1998-12-27 Thread kwrohrer
And lo, Eyal Lebedinsky saith unto me: > > Jon Lewis wrote: > > > > On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > > > > I think the FAST-5 was negotiated as the best the drive will do. Here is > > > how another disk comes up: In your kernel configuration, be sure that you've specified someth

Re: software raid chunk size | slight correction

1998-12-27 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Eyal Lebedinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really think the disks are just stubborn. Yes. Moreover they might handle disconnection unefficiently, which will kill your RAID0 performance completely.

Re: software raid chunk size | slight correction

1998-12-27 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Jon Lewis wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > > I think the FAST-5 was negotiated as the best the drive will do. Here is > > how another disk comes up: > > Are the old disks SCSI-1 or SCSI-2? If you don't have important data on > them, you might try forcing 10MB/s and se

How does one use 'noautodetect'?

1998-12-27 Thread Nigel Rowe
Sorry if this is a repeat, been having problems with our isp. What magic incantation is required at the LILO prompt to use the 'noautodetect' option? > Subject: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1998.12.14, 2.0.36/2.1.131-ac9 . . . > - 'noautodetect' > > there is a new 'noautodetect' kernel boot op