Linux-raid mailing list archive

1999-09-07 Thread "Marian Porwoł"
Hello, Is there anywhere the mailing list archive? Greetings, Marian Porwol

Re: e2fsck not correcting RAID-5 recovered filesystem

1999-09-07 Thread mingo
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, David van der Spoel wrote: > Sep 6 13:10:01 yfs kernel: (skipping faulty sdh1 ) > Sep 6 13:10:01 yfs kernel: (skipping faulty sdc1 ) > i.e., a disk fails, recovery kicks in, and produces a hopefully correct > array in degraded mode. Then when writing the superblock somet

Re: e2fsck not correcting RAID-5 recovered filesystem

1999-09-07 Thread David van der Spoel
Hi, I think this bit is the crucial one (and identical to my problem): Sep 6 13:10:01 yfs kernel: md: recovery thread got woken up ... Sep 6 13:10:01 yfs kernel: md0: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode Sep 6 13:10:01 yfs kernel: md: recovery thread finished ..

Re: e2fsck not correcting RAID-5 recovered filesystem

1999-09-07 Thread mingo
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sang-yong wrote: > >Actually, the second disk is never failed, but md misunderstood... > > Oops! I checked older logs and found a part of my second disk > is broken four days before the major failure happen. There was > single block I/O error on i

Re: e2fsck not correcting RAID-5 recovered filesystem

1999-09-07 Thread sysuh
Sang-yong wrote: >Actually, the second disk is never failed, but md misunderstood... Oops! I checked older logs and found a part of my second disk is broken four days before the major failure happen. There was single block I/O error on it. -- sysuh Sep 2 10:06:22 yfs kernel: scsi : aborting c

Re: Reliable SCSI LVD controler for Linux ?

1999-09-07 Thread Kenneth P. Persing
Hi, I'm using a tyan thunder X dual Xeon 450 with a built-on Adaptec AIC-7896 chipset. It's dual channel, SMP, and totally stable... not a single worry. I would HIGHLY recommend it. Kenneth P. Persing Voice: 7EC26321 Cell: 222D7BCFD Fax: 24721FE18 On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Chris Mauritz wrote

Re: e2fsck not correcting RAID-5 recovered filesystem

1999-09-07 Thread Sang-yong Suh
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 06:29:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have the exactly same problem. My startup message was as follows: > > > > Sep 7 12:28:41 yfs kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array! > > Sep 7 12:28:41 yfs ke

linear over raid1 dead locks

1999-09-07 Thread Hubert Tonneau
With the following configuration, any attempt to access /dev/md1 will lock the process in D (disk sleep) state: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size64 d

Re: Reliable SCSI LVD controler for Linux ?

1999-09-07 Thread Marc Mutz
Hi Hubert! I use a Symbios Logic U2W controller for my swraid. Upgraded from Symbios Logic U-Scsi Controller, and what shall I say: Plugged, worked. They have only one channel, and no lvd-to-hvd bridge, though. Marc -- Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://marc.mutz.com/ Univ

Autodetect at Bootup.

1999-09-07 Thread Matthew
How do I get it to properly detect my RAID1 set on boot up. I think the problem relates to the fact that RAID1 is not compiled into the kernel, I have it as a module. However I think it's possible with lilo to use a ramdisk to load modules at boot time much like is done for SCSI. However I don't

Re: Reliable SCSI LVD controler for Linux ?

1999-09-07 Thread Theron J. Lewis
I am currently using a Mylex ExtremeRAID controller with good results. If you haven't been to this page, please check it out: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.html And if you haven't read this FAQ, do so also: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/README.DAC960 Here is an excerpt about

How to mount on newroot?

1999-09-07 Thread "Marian Porwoł"
Hello everybody, I am following "The Sofware-RAID HOWTO" to make system with / on RAID device. I have a problem after unmounting original (from "install" disk) /boot When mount the boot device on /mnt/newroot/boot: #mount /mnt/newroot/boot /boot mount: /mnt/newroot/boot is not a block device cat

Re: Reliable SCSI LVD controler for Linux ?

1999-09-07 Thread Chris Mauritz
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 7 11:50:39 1999 > > What is the most reliable LVD SCSI controler for Linux ? > > (I use several Buslogic controlers, but as far as I know they don't > have an LVD version, which is absolutely necessary for long SCSI chains, > and my Buslogic controlers went in

Raid Question :)

1999-09-07 Thread Brian Bell
OK, no matter what I do or with any combo of drives I get this. I am running Mandrake 6.0 w/ kernel 2.2.12 (tried 2.2.9) with MD support and raid1 compiled in. Tried the mandrake rpm raid tools and raid tools 19990824 The /etc/raidtab is exactly like the howtos and examples are. I am trying to

Re: e2fsck not correcting RAID-5 recovered filesystem

1999-09-07 Thread Theo Van Dinter
| good. I suppose that 1% is due to the filesystem data getting corrupted | due to the double-disk failure. just an idea for you guys if you're daring and have the right parts: a few months ago, I had a double-disk failure on a RAID4 array (happened on power-up). we ended up taking one of the f

Re: e2fsck not correcting RAID-5 recovered filesystem

1999-09-07 Thread mingo
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the exactly same problem. My startup message was as follows: > > Sep 7 12:28:41 yfs kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array! > Sep 7 12:28:41 yfs kernel: unbind > Sep 7 12:28:41 yfs kernel: export_rdev(sdc1) > Sep 7 12:28:4

Reliable SCSI LVD controler for Linux ?

1999-09-07 Thread Hubert Tonneau
What is the most reliable LVD SCSI controler for Linux ? (I use several Buslogic controlers, but as far as I know they don't have an LVD version, which is absolutely necessary for long SCSI chains, and my Buslogic controlers went in an infinite reset loop several times, which raid cannot prote

Re: overlapping physical units

1999-09-07 Thread Andy Poling
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, paul wrote: > What do these messages mean? I get them in my /var/log/messages every once > in a while (but not at boot). > > > It appears to be saying that my partitions overlap one another but > that isn't the case. > > >md: syncing RAID array md5 > >md: minimum _guara

Re: overlapping physical units

1999-09-07 Thread Kevin Carpenter
It means the partitions exist on the same physical disk so it would be detrimental to attempt to synchronize them in parallel. Kevin C. > > What do these messages mean? I get them in my /var/log/messages every once > in a while (but not at boot). > > > It appears to be saying that my part

e2fsck not correcting RAID-5 recovered filesystem

1999-09-07 Thread sysuh
Hello, mingo and Tso, Please help. I had the exactly same problem, i.e., one of my raid-5 array disks was crashed, and the other one is marked bad. However, I was able to recover from it. Consequently, it is not perfect recovery. e2fsck is not working. :-( In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mingo

overlapping physical units

1999-09-07 Thread paul
What do these messages mean? I get them in my /var/log/messages every once in a while (but not at boot). It appears to be saying that my partitions overlap one another but that isn't the case. >md: syncing RAID array md5 >md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 100 KB/sec. >md: usin

Re: feasibility question

1999-09-07 Thread Tim Walberg
On 09/04/1999 10:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Tim Walberg wrote: >> >> > I want to mirror the NT partition when I'm running Linux. >> > Obviously, the mirror will be broken when I boot under NT, >> >> Eg. if you have sda and sdb

Re: raid5 problem+tool suggestion

1999-09-07 Thread mingo
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, David van der Spoel wrote: > I run a 2.2.12 kernel + latest RAID (990824) + latest knfsd (1.4.7) > OS is on an IDE disk, I have a 8 x 9 Gb SCSI disk RAID 5 array with > 2 SCSI controllers each having four disks (four internal, four external) > After three days uptime (and rea

raid5 problem+tool suggestion

1999-09-07 Thread David van der Spoel
Hi, I run a 2.2.12 kernel + latest RAID (990824) + latest knfsd (1.4.7) OS is on an IDE disk, I have a 8 x 9 Gb SCSI disk RAID 5 array with 2 SCSI controllers each having four disks (four internal, four external) After three days uptime (and reading 50 Gb data from tapes) the following crash occu

Re: Raid Problems

1999-09-07 Thread Sergei Makarov
>> Original Message << On 9/6/99, 10:25:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Raid Problems: > install the old raidtools (0.5) > or use the newest (0.9) with the 0.9 kernel patches Second to this. Raid tools in Mandrake 6.0 are broken. > On Mon, 6

Araid 99-300 IDE RAID Controller experience?

1999-09-07 Thread Till Mommsen
Hi all, o.k. I know the advantages of software RAID. But wouldn't it be a viable option to use two cheap IDE drives with a hardware RAID controller for the OS and put the data on a fast RAID 5 SW RAID? I've read about an IDE RAID 1 Controller (Araid99-300, www.top101usa.com) that is working under