Re: RedHat install disks for Mylex DAC960

1999-02-11 Thread Steve Frampton
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Paul Jakma wrote: > no, the redhat boot disk is an msdos floppy with a special image > loader 'syslinux' and some other bits and bobs. Okay, but it is mountable. So 'syslinux' will allow you to throw a replacement vmlinuz on it and have it boot without the hassles of gettin

Re: Dell Power Edge 4200

1999-02-11 Thread David A. Hauan
Thank you all for your help. Problem solved and I/m happy! My faith in this convoluted mess still exists! dave

Re: RedHat install disks for Mylex DAC960

1999-02-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Steve Frampton wrote: 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. drat.. > I have a kernel compiled with the patches from www.dandelion.com > but now have

Re: benefits of journaling for soft RAID ?

1999-02-11 Thread Matti Aarnio
Billy Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wonders: > Benno Senoner writes: ... > > but actually the customer , in the worst case (in case of an fsck) must > > turn on the power of the machine 30-60min (for a 90% full 70GB array) > > before actual usage. > > In my case the machines can not remain powere

Re: benefits of journaling for soft RAID ?

1999-02-11 Thread Billy Harvey
Benno Senoner writes: > "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > > > Exactly. It keeps a record of in-progress filesystem operations so > > that entire complex operations, such as renames, always complete > > atomically even if you reboot half-way through. It eliminates the > > need for an fsck at

Re: benefits of journaling for soft RAID ?

1999-02-11 Thread Benno Senoner
"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:00:20 +0100, Benno Senoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > can someone please explain what journaling precisely does, (is this > > a sort of mechanism, which leaves the filesystem in a consistent > > status, even in case of disk write

DAC 960 RH5.2 HOWTO install (A bit kludgy, I know but what the heck, it works)

1999-02-11 Thread Jan De Landtsheer
Hi, What I did: You need 1) NFS server with copy of redhat cdrom :o( 2) get patches & tools from dandelion 3) compile a kernel with DAC960 in it, execute litt'l script to create device inodes on compile machine 4) copy this kernel on RH5.2 bootdisk ( compile hard just NIC, DAC960 -

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Re: benefits of journaling for soft RAID ?

1999-02-11 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:00:20 +0100, Benno Senoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > can someone please explain what journaling precisely does, (is this > > a sort of mechanism, which leaves the filesystem in a consistent > > status, even in case of di

need advice/sugestions for RAID

1999-02-11 Thread ricardo
Hello folks, I need advice/suggestions for setting up RAID. I'd like to setup a hardware raid system, and was wondering, if I utilized one of the on-board scsi motherboards (for example asus P2BDS) what would I need to add RAID to the system. Also, I'd like to utilize Ultra2 disks & controlle

Re: Compiling Kernel 2.0.36 raid patch 0145-19990128-2.0.36 bug?

1999-02-11 Thread m. allan noah
there is an archive of this list at www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/ i suggest you go there and look for the empty_zero_page fix. it was mentioned last week. welcome to linux. and remember- this is not about anti-microsoft, it is about pro-freedom. have fun in your brave new world. al "so don't tell us

Compiling Kernel 2.0.36 raid patch 0145-19990128-2.0.36 bug?

1999-02-11 Thread Till Mommsen
Hello, got the following problem compiling Kernel 2.0.36 with the raid0145-19990128-2.0.36 patch file: when I run 'make zImage' I get the following Error listed below (without application of the patch there is no error, I get a new kernel). If I apply the raid0145-19990128-2.0.36 patch everythi

Adaptec AAA-131SA Driver

1999-02-11 Thread BMahlock
Hi folks, I've poked around the listservs and such for a few hours now, and haven't been able to track down a driver for the Adaptec hardware raid. Even talked to Adaptec, but they encouraged me to write my own ... Can anybody point me in the right direction, or even suggest another card that wi

Re: benefits of journaling for soft RAID ?

1999-02-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:00:20 +0100, Benno Senoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > can someone please explain what journaling precisely does, (is this > a sort of mechanism, which leaves the filesystem in a consistent > status, even in case of disk write interruption, due of power loss > or other

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

1999-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Luca Berra wrote: > the latest raid patch raid0145-19990128-2.2.0 is not included in kernel > 2.2.1 the patch should apply to 2.2.1 with only one reject, which, i > believe, can be safely ignored. yep that reject is in mmap.c, which can be ignored. (the RAID patch simply h

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

1999-02-11 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 07:10:56PM -0500, Stephen Hurrell wrote: > 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 > already "rolled into 2.2.1". Is this correct? FYI: I tried the no,

benefits of journaling for soft RAID ?

1999-02-11 Thread Benno Senoner
> Hello, > > > I had journaling and buffer commit code, but not any filesystem > personality stuff. Current status is that 2.2 is out (yay!) and > journaling is once again my top priority, and I've just started doing > real testing of basic filesystem transactions (currently only for the > simp

Re: FC-AL support

1999-02-11 Thread Steffen Grunewald
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 :-)