RE: How to recover a RAID5 device with more than one disk down

1999-05-08 Thread Tom Livingston
Giulio Botto wrote: > the feature I MOST would have liked in the situation I had at the moment was > the possibility to update superblocks only and a tool which could read and > let me write what I wanted in the various superblocks of the > devices comprised in the array. I agree that this proced

Re: Question about logical drive expansion on hardware raid.

1999-05-08 Thread Giulio Botto
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 06:44:56PM -0400, XxEDGExX thusly shaped the electrons: [...] > > Now, if I expand the logical device, WHERE will the extra space > end up? I'd like it to be placed in /home, but I just don't understand It will not be placed anywhere: if you will fdisk /dev/sda you will

Re: How to recover a RAID5 device with more than one disk down

1999-05-08 Thread Giulio Botto
Reply-To: Kudos to all of the people that came up with suggestions, patches and scripts. In the end we managed to get the RAID up and running again, the funny thing is that, instead of using the most recent drive and the last most recent one we HAD to use the most out of sync and the last most r

Re: 4OO GB Raid Partition

1999-05-08 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi In the beginning of setting up linux raid-systems on our (linux) machines at work, I ask, if there are any limitations, too. As far as I remember, linux is able to serve 16TB at the moment (maybe I am wrong); there of course differences between intel- and alpha-linux, because intel-linux is 32

Re: HP Netserver LH3 Raid

1999-05-08 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi I think HP has released a serie of machines which come along with PII and PIII processor developed for linux (they serve Redhat). The machines are HP LP or something like; I don't remember the right alias, but maybe the LH3 belongs to the same type. Greetings, Dietmar moon wrote: > > Hi all

4OO GB Raid Partition

1999-05-08 Thread Hielke Christian Braun
Hello everybody, i am trying to setup a 400 GB e2fs partition on a icp-vortex raid controller. I have encounterd some problems setting this up. I am running SuSE 6.1 with a kernel ver. 2.2.7. The partiontable is : Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 51315 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065

Re: Problem with raid 1 and RH6.0

1999-05-08 Thread A James Lewis
It's quite a simple patch to fdisk to list "Linux RAID" as a partition type, anyone thought of doing this... I've done it here for my own use but I'm not too sure of any other implications. AJ On Sat, 8 May 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote: > Hi Aaron > > while running fdisk on /dev/sdX you have to

HP Netserver LH3 Raid

1999-05-08 Thread moon
Hi all -- Anybody knows if linux can be installed on a HP Netserver (LH3) machine with RAID-5 disks? Thanks. regrds, ks.