Re: RedHat install disks for Mylex DAC960

1999-02-10 Thread Steve Frampton
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Paul Jakma wrote: > Are there any RedHat install disks with support for the Mylex > DAC960 RAID card? Not to my knowledge. > I have a kernel compiled with the patches from www.dandelion.com > but now have to figure out an easy way of installing redhat. Well, what I did is

Re: Linux 2.2.1/raidtools-19990128-0.90 getting a "mkraid: aborted"

1999-02-10 Thread Stephen Hurrell
Thanks for all that noted the 8192 chunksize was a bit excessive ;-) The current value (for a postgresql 6.4.2 site) is now 8 (for 8kb) I am using a linux 2.2.1 "stock" kernel from ftp.ca.kernel.org. I tried applying the latest raid0145 patch but it failed in many places so I assumed that it was

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > > > > The Sparc port has full support for point to point and full fc-al > > > > > fibre channel. This is utilizing Sun's SOC and SOCAL adapter cards. > > > > > > > > > > > > > What about Jaycor (JNI) cards ? They seem to simulate a SCSI > > > > interface, but with up to 255 disks connected

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Jakub Jelinek
> > > > > > > The Sparc port has full support for point to point and full fc-al > > > > fibre channel. This is utilizing Sun's SOC and SOCAL adapter cards. > > > > > > > > > > What about Jaycor (JNI) cards ? They seem to simulate a SCSI > > > interface, but with up to 255 disks connected :-)

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > > The Sparc port has full support for point to point and full fc-al > > > fibre channel. This is utilizing Sun's SOC and SOCAL adapter cards. > > > > > > > What about Jaycor (JNI) cards ? They seem to simulate a SCSI > > interface, but with up to 255 disks connected :-) > > 255? Strange.

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Jakub Jelinek
> > The Sparc port has full support for point to point and full fc-al > > fibre channel. This is utilizing Sun's SOC and SOCAL adapter cards. > > > > What about Jaycor (JNI) cards ? They seem to simulate a SCSI > interface, but with up to 255 disks connected :-) 255? Strange. Does it have dual

raid support?

1999-02-10 Thread John Barbee
Hi, I was wondering what Raid levels are supported by which pieces of software? please cc me. john.

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
> >there is some support under Linux? > > > > The Sparc port has full support for point to point and full fc-al > > fibre channel. This is utilizing Sun's SOC and SOCAL adapter cards. > > > > What about Jaycor (JNI) cards ? They seem to simulate a SCSI > interface, but with up to 255 disk

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Steffen Grunewald
David Miller: > > >Does anybody has some experiences with 'Fibre Channel' and know, if >there is some support under Linux? > > The Sparc port has full support for point to point and full fc-al > fibre channel. This is utilizing Sun's SOC and SOCAL adapter cards. > What about Jaycor (

Re: 2.2.1 and RAID

1999-02-10 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. wrote: Hello, Is there a new RAID patch for the 2.2.1 kernel? use the most recent one for the 2.2.0 kernel. it applies perfectly - except for one reject which you can ignore cause it fixes something which 2.2.1 already has fixed, but i

RedHat install disks for Mylex DAC960

1999-02-10 Thread Paul Jakma
Are there any RedHat install disks with support for the Mylex DAC960 RAID card? I have a kernel compiled with the patches from www.dandelion.com but now have to figure out an easy way of installing redhat. How easy is it to make custom RedHat install disks? (bit OT i know) thanks, Paul Jakma.

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-10 Thread Richard Jones
Richard Jones wrote: > > Richard Jones wrote: > [...] > > to reformat it. However, I'll get bonnie benchmarks > > for the new array once it's finished initial > > building. I've noticed that the RAID5.HOWTO has > [...] > > I'm going to measure fsck and mount times exactly next ... # time mount

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yes, there are a number of adapters that support Fibre Channel, and there's at least some attempts in Sparclinux to support a full FC4 module. On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Kay Salzwedel wrote: > Hi, > > it might be the wrong list(s) to ask, but I there is still a chance that > someone can help me. >

cookbook for disk mirroring with raidtools-0.42 (was Re: RAID1 experiences )

1999-02-10 Thread steve rader
> You are nuts if you think the docs are of ANY help. They are so > out of date, and full of error/omissions I wonder why you are pointing > this fellow there. I disagree. The docs are pretty okay if you run 2.0.x, raidtools 0.42 and take the time to really understand what you're doing.

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-10 Thread Richard Jones
Richard Jones wrote: [...] > to reformat it. However, I'll get bonnie benchmarks > for the new array once it's finished initial > building. I've noticed that the RAID5.HOWTO has [...] Here they are: # /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 0.93 seconds =34.4

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Kay Salzwedel
Chris Mauritz wrote: > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 10 11:27:46 1999 > > > > Hi, > > > > it might be the wrong list(s) to ask, but I there is still a chance that > > someone can help me. > > > > Does anybody has some experiences with 'Fibre Channel' and know, if > > there is some support un

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread David Miller
Date:Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:19:12 +0100 From: Kay Salzwedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does anybody has some experiences with 'Fibre Channel' and know, if there is some support under Linux? The Sparc port has full support for point to point and full fc-al fibre channel. This is utiliz

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Jakub Jelinek
> > Hi, > > it might be the wrong list(s) to ask, but I there is still a chance that > someone can help me. > > Does anybody has some experiences with 'Fibre Channel' and know, if > there is some support under Linux? I've just commited to vger CVS drivers for Sun SBUS SOC+ Fibre Channel card,

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:29:39AM -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 10 11:27:46 1999 > > > > Hi, > > > > it might be the wrong list(s) to ask, but I there is still a chance that > > someone can help me. > > > > Does anybody has some experiences with 'Fibre Channel'

Driver to RAID disks

1999-02-10 Thread George Paliouras
Hi! I have been trying to install Red Hat Linux on an IBM machine with SCSI RAID disks. I am looking for appropriate drivers, but I am confused by all this stuff about software and hardware RAID. I clearly have a RAID controller and just need the appropriate driver. Do you know if there is anyth

Re: RAID1 experiences

1999-02-10 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 09:43:12AM -0600, Chris Price wrote: > We should not criticize Redhat for putting obsolete code on their > distro. A while back, when Redhat followed a more bleeding edge approach, > they constantly put beta software on their distro, and received much more > criticism

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Chris Mauritz
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 10 11:27:46 1999 > > Hi, > > it might be the wrong list(s) to ask, but I there is still a chance that > someone can help me. > > Does anybody has some experiences with 'Fibre Channel' and know, if > there is some support under Linux? Doesn't ICP Vortex make a f

FC-AL support

1999-02-10 Thread Kay Salzwedel
Hi, it might be the wrong list(s) to ask, but I there is still a chance that someone can help me. Does anybody has some experiences with 'Fibre Channel' and know, if there is some support under Linux? Kay -- Kay A Salzwedel

Re: RAID1 experiences

1999-02-10 Thread A James Lewis
I'd love to see it integrated, but that time is passed for now... we've just seen the 2.2 release and we cannot merge such a major functionality at the moment... I don't believe that Linus would allow it Roll on 2.3! I believe that from what I have seen, the existing patches are well good e

Re: RAID1 experiences

1999-02-10 Thread Richard Jones
Chris Price wrote: > Instead of pointing fingers at Redhat, I would ask if there is > someone with teh Linux-raid community that actively corresponds with > redhat to let them know of current status of linux-raid? Ingo etal. seem > to be doing a superb job in adding funtionality and fixing

Re: RAID1 experiences

1999-02-10 Thread Chris Price
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Geof Goodrum wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Erich J. Ritzmann wrote: > > > I have 'blindly' subscribed to this list as I have an immediate need to > > deploy a RAID1 system. I say blindly as I do not know where to find the > > main linux-raid web site or FAQ. > > Try ht

Quick and Dirty Raid1 howto

1999-02-10 Thread Chris Price
Hey; What follows is my own raid1 howto, the info below I derived from reading several hundred emails in the archives. One was especially helpful(and provided most of the content for this howto), but I forget the original authors name (hey, credit where credit is due).

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-10 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:31:14 +0100 (CET), MOLNAR Ingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Stephen Tweedie is working on the journalling extensions. [not sure what > the current status is, he had a working prototype end of last year.] I had journaling and buffer commit code, but not any filesystem pe

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-10 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:14:28 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvin Oga) said: > I have a hardware raid controller running off a P2-200 > with 64Gb of disk...99% full... and it takes > about 45 min to e2fsck it when it goes down dirty... > and takes about 10 min to mount it if it's clean The

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-10 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:14:28 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvin Oga) said: > hi benno > I have a hardware raid controller running off a P2-200 > with 64Gb of disk...99% full... and it takes > about 45 min to e2fsck it when it goes down dirty... > and takes about 10 min to mount it if it's

Re: RAID1 experiences

1999-02-10 Thread Geof Goodrum
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Erich J. Ritzmann wrote: > I have 'blindly' subscribed to this list as I have an immediate need to > deploy a RAID1 system. I say blindly as I do not know where to find the > main linux-raid web site or FAQ. Try http://linas.org/linux/raid.html. You can find the latest R

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-10 Thread Richard Jones
Malcolm Beattie wrote: > > The only archive of this list that AltaVista found me was a local one > which didn't go back far enough. I suggest you look at your "Random > Seeks" figure in bonnie, not the bandwidth figures. I would suggest > recreating the whole thing from scratch with > chunk-s

Re: Dell Power Edge 4200

1999-02-10 Thread Roger D.
You need to have the Linux Driver for your RAID Controller. I believe there was some discussion a while back about the controller being a AMI Megaraid and a boot image for 5.1 at http://home.talkcity.com/HardDiskDr/yewnix/ -Original Message- From: David A. Hauan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

RAID1 experiences

1999-02-10 Thread Erich J. Ritzmann
I have 'blindly' subscribed to this list as I have an immediate need to deploy a RAID1 system. I say blindly as I do not know where to find the main linux-raid web site or FAQ. Neither, have I found the md tools on my Red Hat 5.2 distribution CD. This surprised me because the kernel code supp

Re: Dell Power Edge 4200

1999-02-10 Thread Geof Goodrum
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, David A. Hauan wrote: > Problem... > Dell Power Edge 4200 > AMI Raid Controller... PERC as Dell Defines it. Bios by AMI I guess. > Four 4gig SCSIs > Adaptec 29*, whatever SCSI cards. > 256 Meg Mem > Sony SCSI tape and CD > > Am I missing something or should I be able to gle

Re: HP NetServer HW RAID

1999-02-10 Thread Geof Goodrum
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Hans Schaechl wrote: > Anybody out there with some real world experiences > concerning HP's NetRaid (which is Symbios/NCR 53c8xx > based OEM stuff and may be covered by NCRs megaraid > driver, afaik) which comes with HP NetServer LH3 models? If I remember correctly, the HP

Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

1999-02-10 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Richard Jones writes: > Malcolm Beattie wrote: > > > > > > Mounting mine when clean takes 4 seconds. I wonder if you used a 1k > > block size for your filesystem. That greatly increases the time to > > check the bitmaps upon mounting (though you can turn this off with > > mount -o check=none). I

concat disk crash

1999-02-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
I had 3 seagate barracudas in a concat, the last one (block 8M-12M) crashed yesterday. I just want to tell others my experiences. I put another drive in there, mounted the md partition RO, copied the files I could (was some), ran fsck, got 2 gig in lost+found, some of which was salvagable. I gu

Re: Linux 2.2.1/raidtools-19990128-0.90 getting a "mkraid: aborted"

1999-02-10 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Stephen Hurrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > org04:~# mkraid -V > mkraid version 0.90.0 > org04:~# mkraid /dev/md0 > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > disk 0: /dev/sda3, 6417967kB, raid superblock at 6417856kB > disk 1: /dev/sdb4, 6417967kB, raid superblock at 6417856kB

Driver to RAID disks

1999-02-10 Thread George Paliouras
Hi! I have been trying to install Red Hat Linux on an IBM machine with SCSI RAID disks. I am looking for appropriate drivers, but I am confused by all this stuff about software and hardware RAID. I clearly have a RAID controller and just need the appropriate driver. Do you know if there is anythi

processes struc at R state with bleeding(?) edge kernel

1999-02-10 Thread Markus Linnala
Summary: with bleedin edge kernel first process accessing raid is struck at R state and after that processes are struc at D state. Not always repeatable. Try with bonnie -s 2047. Kernel is v2.2.2pre2 with 2.2.1.uniform-ide-6.19.patch, raid0145-19990128-2.2.0, and Stephen C. Tweedie's <[EMAIL PRO

Re: processes struc at R state with bleeding(?) edge kernel

1999-02-10 Thread A James Lewis
Hi, What additional IDE controllers are recommended to allow more than 4 devices In old pentium VX chipsets I noticed that the machine (Linux 2.0.29 at the time, or the chipset) couldn't access both busses at the same time making a mirror hda/hdc very slow... What is the situation with ha

2.2.1 and RAID

1999-02-10 Thread Benjamin de los Angeles Jr.
Hello, Is there a new RAID patch for the 2.2.1 kernel?

Dell Power Edge 4200

1999-02-10 Thread David A. Hauan
Please help! Nt has me at my wits end. I have been using Linux since 1.5 kernels, while not yet an expert I feel my knowledge is sufficient enough to get through most anything, wel it was, till now. And too, I have not asked gor help from any *group* 'till now. Problem... Dell Power Edge 4200