Re: problems with autodetection

1999-08-05 Thread Gevaerts Frank
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > both, the tools and the kernel-patch should be the same version!!! > > This was a known problem with this and future versions of the > raid-kernel-code. it has already been fixed with the release from 24.7.1999. To use >this > patch upgrade

Re: not using KNI with latest patch

1999-08-05 Thread James Manning
> 4-way 500 MHz with KNI in the cpu flags doesn't seem to actually try > using KNI during initialization... Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Forgot to mention it was raid0145-19990724-2.2.10 :) It's got what appears to be a perfectly fine XORBLOCK_TEMPLATE for pIII_kni.. James

not using KNI with latest patch

1999-08-05 Thread James Manning
4-way 500 MHz with KNI in the cpu flags doesn't seem to actually try using KNI during initialization... Any idea what I'm doing wrong? --- dmesg snip --- raid5 personality registered raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx :

Re: problems with autodetection

1999-08-05 Thread thomasko321
Hi, both, the tools and the kernel-patch should be the same version!!! This was a known problem with this and future versions of the raid-kernel-code. it has already been fixed with the release from 24.7.1999. To use this patch upgrade to 2.0.37. U need the newest patch for the kernel otherwise

RE: Moving raid disks to new controllers with live data

1999-08-05 Thread Tom Livingston
Kiyan Azarbar wrote: > I ordered them. What I'm wondering is how the controllers will be > identified provided I do nothing special to set up the kernel (2.2.10 > with 0723 raid patch). which controller will get hde/f,g/h, and which > will get hdi/j,hdk/l (if I install two ultra33's in a single >

Re: RAID-0 Boot-Problems

1999-08-05 Thread thomasko321
Hi, have you set the partition type of the raid member partitions to 0xfd??? Otherwise the autodetection doesn't work. Thomas > > I've got a problem activating my RAID-Devices at bootup. > > Situation: > -newest Kernel Patches in Kernel 2.2.10 > -newest raid-tools compiled and used > -boot-supp

RAID-0 Boot-Problems

1999-08-05 Thread Niels Happel
Hello everybody, I've got a problem activating my RAID-Devices at bootup. Situation: -newest Kernel Patches in Kernel 2.2.10 -newest raid-tools compiled and used -boot-support and automatic RAID support activated in kernel -created an RAID-0 Device using mkraid -my /etc/raidtab looks like this:

Re: RAID 1 help please

1999-08-05 Thread Martin Bene
At 10:34 04.08.99 -0400, you wrote: >I'd like to know for my own selfish reasons, as I'd love to mirror >working filesystems (some even on s/w raid already) with raid1 when >the drives finally ship to me, but I can't wait for that to use them, >and doing the necessary backup/restore when the driv

problems with autodetection

1999-08-05 Thread Gevaerts Frank
I have just setup raid1 on my root partition. Once set up, the system works fine, but if I boot with unconfigured or out of date partitions with type 0xfd, it is impossible to add these partitions to a raid array. If I try to do it, I get a kernel message saying: Aug 4 17:08:01 omega kernel: md:

Moving raid disks to new controllers with live data

1999-08-05 Thread Kiyan Azarbar
This message concerns the Promise Ultra33 controllers, and upgrading an existing RAID5 config to use the new controllers. Current config for /dev/md[X]: raid-disk 0: /dev/hdb[X+1] raid-disk 1: /dev/hdc[X+1] raid-disk 2: /dev/hdd[X+1] Want to go to a config in which all three raid disks (and poss