Re: DPT SmartRAID-V driver -- who has it?

1999-03-29 Thread Andy Poling
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Tom wrote: > If you grab the source, you get copies of the source for eata_dma too. > Download the 2.0.26 kernel source from kernel.org [...] > Of course, it was developed outside DPT. The question was about the SmartRAID V --- You're

Re: Raid patch to mark a special device dirty

1999-03-29 Thread Andy Poling
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Harald Hoyer wrote: > I made a small kernel and raidtools patch to mark a specific device as dirty > (failure). > > Suppose you have as a /etc/raidtab > raiddev /dev/md4 > chunk-size128 > raid-level1 > nr-raid-disks

Re: DPT SmartRAID-V driver -- who has it?

1999-03-29 Thread Dave Cinege
Andy Poling wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Josh Fishman wrote: > > Welcome back to the continuing saga of the DPT SmartRAID-V and its > > elusive Linux driver! Tune in this week as Josh finds a binary-only > > (in fact, form of RedHat 5.x install disks w/ driver in modules.cgz) > > driver for ke

Re: DPT SmartRAID-V driver -- who has it?

1999-03-29 Thread Tom
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Josh Fishman wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Welcome back to the continuing saga of the DPT SmartRAID-V and its > elusive Linux driver! Tune in this week as Josh finds a binary-only > (in fact, form of RedHat 5.x install disks w/ driver in modules.cgz) > driver for kernel 2.0.36 -

Re: DPT SmartRAID-V driver -- who has it?

1999-03-29 Thread Andy Poling
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Josh Fishman wrote: > Welcome back to the continuing saga of the DPT SmartRAID-V and its > elusive Linux driver! Tune in this week as Josh finds a binary-only > (in fact, form of RedHat 5.x install disks w/ driver in modules.cgz) > driver for kernel 2.0.36 -- which is useless

DPT SmartRAID-V driver -- who has it?

1999-03-29 Thread Josh Fishman
Hi everyone, Welcome back to the continuing saga of the DPT SmartRAID-V and its elusive Linux driver! Tune in this week as Josh finds a binary-only (in fact, form of RedHat 5.x install disks w/ driver in modules.cgz) driver for kernel 2.0.36 -- which is useless for his server running kernel 2.2.5

Re: partition type to autodetect raid

1999-03-29 Thread Dietmar Stein
Laszlo Vecsey wrote: > In the original docs or howtos, mention is made of being able to partition > your /dev/sdx device first, or just using it as a raw device.. which is > what I've done. Now that detection based on the partition type is > available though, its a little unfortunate for those of

Re: General questions

1999-03-29 Thread Dietmar Stein
Dave Wreski wrote: > Hi all. I've read the most recent HOWTO, and still have a few questions. I plan > to implement RAID-1 on a 586 with two 6G IDE disks. Most files are greater than > 4M, if that makes a difference. I don't think so. > If I want to experiement with different chunk sizes, mus

Re: Raid 5 raidhotadd required

1999-03-29 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi, I followed your discussion a little bit, having a question to the fdisk: what did you mean by "changing the partition type for sda2 to fd"? Is it an option to fdisk or does it mean to "fdisk" the drive again (building a "new" partition sda2)? Dietmar Stephen Denny wrote: > > Check if you'v

Re: Raid patch to mark a special device dirty

1999-03-29 Thread A James Lewis
This is exactly the idea I suggested the other day... I hope it meets with everone's approval! it also could be used to force the system to move data off a SPARE disk if I want to keep the same disk spare unless it's being used for neatness I realise that it leaves an inconsistant files

Raid patch to mark a special device dirty

1999-03-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
Hi, I made a small kernel and raidtools patch to mark a specific device as dirty (failure). Suppose you have as a /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md4 chunk-size128 raid-level1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks1 device

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
Here is some further information about the filesystem, produced by dumpe2fs. The blocks being freed seem to be far outside the actual filesystem. The block numbers generated are not random, the same blocks appear over and over again. And for those of you into spooky numerology, if you subtract (h

Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
Richard Jones wrote: > > Apart from a couple of minor and easily fixed patch problems, > patch-2.2.4 can be applied to linux-2.2.3 + raid 19990309. > I've been running some stress tests on the new kernel and > a large array of SCSI RAID disks very successfully over- > night. Well done to all! No