raid

1999-01-22 Thread James Eckersall
I have a 486 dx4/100 pc with 64mb ram and the following disks 500mb / partition 200mb split - 40mb swap and 160mb for /usr/X11R6 200mb unused at the moment 340mb unusued also I am looking at raiding them but i know nothing at all about raid can anyone advise me the best thing to do with them and

RAID0 question

1999-01-22 Thread Kenneth P. Persing
Quick (hopefully easy) question. A few weeks ago I RAIDed together two SCSI-2 seagate 2GB HDs using RAID0 (A simple enough task) However, during the boot process, I get the error (Warning : no checksum field for /dev/md0). Everything works wonderfully, and I've had no problems. But I dislike ge

RE: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

1999-01-22 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
Sorry for my last german msg. It was intended to go to Heinz Christian only. Michael. -- Michael Weller: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], or even [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you encounter an eowmob account on any machine in the net, it's very likely it's me.

RE: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

1999-01-22 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Heinz Christian wrote: > Hello, > > Seems you´re one step behind us ;-) Am I? Oder.. Bin ich/Sind wir (ich habe das mit einem Freund probiert)? > an installation of linux on a QuadPPRO machine with 1 GByte RAM was successful - >just ´till we compiled a new kernel > with

RE: 2.2.0pre8 and raid0145-19990108-2.2.0-pre5

1999-01-22 Thread paolo furieri
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David B. Rees wrote: > > patching file `linux/fs/buffer.c' > > Hunk #5 succeeded at 631 (offset -12 lines). > > Hunk #7 succeeded at 665 (offset -12 lines). > > Hunk #9 FAILED at 923. > > > > The reason it's not compiling for you is because Hunk #9 Failed. You'll have to >

http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-raid/lr_9901_03/msg00011.html

1999-01-22 Thread hedrick
The latest chipset code will support the following :: Three Ultra33 controllers and 12 drives. 8 are UDMA supported and 4 are limited to DMA mode 2 multi-word. The 8/4 ratio is a BIOS code limit by promise. There is only one BIOS in the three contollers. Jan 11 00:40:00 Orion kernel: PDC20246: ID

Re: 2.2.0pre8 and raid0145-19990108-2.2.0-pre5

1999-01-22 Thread Eric Ladner
Luca Berra wrote: > > > P.S. Can someone direct me to the devfs patches? > http://www.antf.csiro.au/~rgooch/ > but it is NOT compatible with raid patches (well, until i find some time > to release another raid+devfs patch) > I think you meant atnf not antf. Specifically: ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.