Adding a disk to a RAID5 array

1999-01-11 Thread Tighe Kuykendall
I'm in the process of setting up my first RAID5 array unter Linux. I've followed the most recent docs from this list and currently have the system somewhat running. I'm wanting to do root RAID5 with 3 4GB drives. I started by installing RH 5.2 to /dev/sda3. I gutted the pre-installed RAID st

Re: kernel: raid5: couldn't allocate thread for ...

1999-01-11 Thread Bjarni R. Einarsson
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:13:38AM -0500, Geof Goodrum wrote: > > I've been running two RAID5 and one RAID0 set since raidtools v0.41. I > skipped v0.50 and went right to alpha v0.90. You might consider doing the > same, as 0.90 has been quite solid for me. > > Your configuration is unclear to

Re: kernel: raid5: couldn't allocate thread for ...

1999-01-11 Thread Geof Goodrum
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Bjarni R. Einarsson wrote: > The box is a dual PII, with a 2.0.36 SMP kernel, with everything compiled in > (not using modules). I'm using the raid drivers that were included with > Linux 2.0.36, and the raidtools included with RedHat 5.2 > (raidtools-0.50beta10-2.i386.rpm).

DPT and SCSI_ABORT_BUSY

1999-01-11 Thread Peter Arien
Hi all I get lots and lots of these lately eata_abort called pid: 1646250 target: 0 lun: 0 reason 3 Returning: SCSI_ABORT_BUSY scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1646251, scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x28 00 01 b0 42 4e 00 00 02 00 And the machine is going down at least once a we

Re: patch raid0145-19990108-2.0.36 doesn't compile!

1999-01-11 Thread Aaron D. Turner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Compiles fine for me (even with tons of other kernel patches from LinuxMama and VA Research). - -- Aaron Turner | Either which way, one half dozen or another. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Check out the Red Hat Linux User's FAQ Online! www.pobox.com/~a

kernel: raid5: couldn't allocate thread for ...

1999-01-11 Thread Bjarni R. Einarsson
Hello all, I ran into the above error, when attempting to activate the second of two raid sets I was configuring on a new box at work. I found no mention of this error, neither in the HOWTO nor when scanning the subjects of previous posts to this list. Any pointers to what I'm doing wrong, woul

Re: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1999.01.08, 2.0.36/2.2.0-pre5

1999-01-11 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mingo, Hmmm, I had to edit 'drivers/block/genhd.c' after the patching to add the 'fifth' variable to the 'add_partition' calls . I also had to edit 'mkpv.c' in the '1214' raid-tools src's to get them to compile on my system, I replaced th

Re: patch raid0145-19990108-2.0.36 doesn't compile!

1999-01-11 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
> . > ld -m elf_i386 -m elf_i386 -r -o sr_mod.o sr.o sr_ioctl.o > sr_ioctl.o(.data+0x0): multiple definition of 'kernel_version' > sr.o(.data+0x0): first defined here > make[2]: *** [sr_mod.o] Error 1 it compiles here just fine. (let me guess, you have set MAKE=make -j3 in the main Makefile

raid0 success story

1999-01-11 Thread imel...
finally i found the culprit which prevents me from running raid0, i.e. not setting "persistent superblock" in /etc/raidtab to '1' the comment in /etc/raidtab is misleading (obsolete?) and may be simply overlook by casual user it affect mkraid (i gue

Red Hat 5.2 installation: RAID on Mylex AccelRAID 250?

1999-01-11 Thread Steve Frampton
Hello! I'm going to be getting a new server ready. It is a Pentium II @ 350 MHz with 256 Mb of RAM, with a BusLogic BT-948 SCSI controller driving both an HP C1554A DDS-3 SCSI DAT drive as well as a CD-ROM. In addition, it has a Mylex AccelRAID 250 card driving four Quantum Fireball 9 Gb drives

Re: help in applying raid patches to 2.2.0pre4

1999-01-11 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i was trying to apply raid0145-19981215 to 2.2.0pre4 > > > I did the same to Pre5, same problem. fetch the pre5 patch from http://www..kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha -- mingo

Re: halp in appliyng raid patches to 2.2.0pre4

1999-01-11 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All, I have been running 2.2.0-pre6 & the latest raid0145-*-pre6 patches all night . No problems yet . :-) I also had to compile up the latest tools , the previous were from Nov. or so . On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hello > > i was tryi